A team of doctors in Berlin say they’ve cured a man of HIV/AIDS with a stem cell transplant. While AIDS researchers say the exact procedure is unlikely to result in many cures, some are celebrating the findings as a huge leap in research that could lead to a cure.
The patient, who had both HIV/AIDS and leukemia, was cured of both when he received stem cells from a donor with a rare HIV-resistant mutation. We talk to the San Francisco doctor who was one of the first to find the AIDS virus, and a California researcher studying stem cells and AIDS.