The Gene Mutation That Could Cure HIV Has a Checkered Past

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

• Episode: The Gene Mutation That Could Cure HIV Has a Checkered Past
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:05:43
• Published: 2019-03-07 22:33

In the three and a half decades since HIV/AIDS was discovered, the deadly disease has killed 35 million people. While drugs now allow patients to live long lives with the virus, only one man, an American named Timothy Ray Brown, otherwise known as the “Berlin patient,” is believed to have been cured. Now, it appears he’s no longer alone.