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The Naked Scientists Podcast

HIV case cured by umbilical cord stem cells

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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How doctors in the US have "cured" a woman with HIV, does Venus have volcanoes? Reexamining 30 year old probe footage has got scientists wondering, and signs that an artificial sweetener can affect the immune system... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Hello welcome to the a woman with HIV, does Venus have volcanoes, re-examining 30-year-old probe footage has

0:56.2

got scientists wondering and signs that an artificial sweetener can affect the immune system.

1:01.4

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. A woman in America has become the fourth person to be potentially cured of HIV when she

1:20.6

underwent an immune cell transplant procedure to treat a blood cancer that she'd also developed.

1:26.0

Speaking at a press conference as the results were unveiled,

1:29.0

UCLA Infectious Diseases Specialist Yvonne Brysonson who led the team treating the patient

1:34.0

was cautiously optimistic about the results.

1:36.3

We have not been able to detect virus in the blood and also her cells are resistant now.

1:43.6

She's clinically healthy, free of both cancer and HIV.

1:49.0

And we are calling this a possible cure

1:51.3

waiting on a longer period of follow-up.

1:54.0

Now three male patients have previously been also described as cured of HIV in a similar way.

2:00.1

One of them, Adam Castileo, who's dubbed the London patient, was on this program two years ago alongside

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