NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - A woman who was infected with HIV in 1992 may be the first person cured of the virus without a risky bone marrow transplant or even medications, researchers reported Wednesday (Aug 26).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - A woman who was infected with HIV in 1992 may be the first person cured of the virus without a risky bone marrow transplant or even medications, researchers reported Wednesday .
The woman is Loreen Willenberg, 66, of California, already famous among researchers because her body has suppressed the virus for decades after verified infection. In May, researchers in Brazil reported that a combination of HIV treatments may have led to another cure, but other experts said more tests were needed to confirm that finding.
The participants in the research were so-called elite controllers, the one per cent of people with HIV who can keep the virus in check without antiretroviral drugs. In the new study, Yu and her colleagues analysed 1.5 billion blood cells from Willenberg and found no trace of the virus, even using sophisticated new techniques that can pinpoint the virus's location within the genome."She could be added to the list of what I think is a cure, through a very different path," Lewin said."It's certainly encouraging, but speculative," said Dr Una O'Doherty, a virologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
The infected cells that remained held the virus only in remote regions of the genome where it could not be copied.
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