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Author Holt, Nathalia, 1980- author.

Title Cured : how the Berlin patients defeated HIV and forever changed medical science / Nathalia Holt.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Dutton, [2014]

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  614.5993 HOLT    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary A young molecular biologist at the forefront of HIV research, Nathalia Holt tells the historic, multilayered, and compassionate story of two patients--each known in medical literature as the Berlin Patient--and their young research-minded doctors. The backdrop is nothing less than a revolution in cultural attitudes and medical thinking. These two patients' disparate cures came twelve years apart: the first in 1996 from an experimental cancer drug, the other in 2008 from a bone marrow transplant of cells with a particular genetic mutation. Holt connects the molecular dots of these two cases for the first time, providing insight into one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our generation.--From publisher description.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
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Subject HIV infections -- Treatment -- Germany -- Berlin.
Gene therapy -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
HIV Infections -- therapy -- Germany.
Anti-HIV Agents -- Germany -- History.
Anti-HIV Agents -- therapeutic use -- Germany.
Genetic Therapy -- Germany -- History.
History, 20th Century -- Germany.
History, 21st Century -- Germany.
Hydroxyurea -- Germany -- History.
Hydroxyurea -- therapeutic use -- Germany.
Treatment Outcome -- Germany.
ISBN 9780525953920 (hbk.)
0525953922 (hbk.)
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