Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has affected numerous people in the world, causing the fatal disease of AIDS. Scientists have been searching for its permanent cure for a long time, and it seems like they have finally made significant headway in their research. According to recent reports, a team of American researchers may have cured HIV time in a woman for the first time.
As per a report by NBC News, a group of researchers from the USA has possibly cured HIV in a woman for the first time in human history. The researchers used their experience to analyze past successes and failures to come up with a new cutting-edge stem cell transplant method that uses special stem cells with a rare genetic abnormality that grants a natural resistance to the cells that the immunodeficiency viruses target. They believe that this treatment can be expanded to a pool of at least a dozen people annually, going forward.
Nonetheless, the director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Carl Dieffenbach said that HIV-curing success stories like this continue to provide hope. “It’s important that there continues to be success along this line,” added Dieffenbach.
