The Second-Ever Case of Full HIV Remission | SciShow News

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There’s still a lot of work to be done before HIV is cured, but this week scientists reported the second-ever case of full HIV remission in a patient. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bill & Katie Scholl, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1027-4 https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatishiv.html https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv-aids/fact-sheets/19/45/hiv-aids--the-basics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3185609/ https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318091.php http://www.leukemiabmtprogram.org/patients_and_family/treatment/blood_and_marrow_transplant/ric_transplant.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265135041_Shift_of_HIV_Tropism_in_Stem-Cell_Transplantation_with_CCR5_Delta32_Mutation http://www.aidsmap.com/Receptors-co-receptors-and-immunity-to-HIV/page/1391639/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/hiv_resistant_mutation
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