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This story has been on HN before ~3 months (of course it is still news that the patient is well and without any trace of HIV):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=357144

Also see an earlier speculation by a HN reader that such a cure for HIV would be possible:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746

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Yes but FTA: "The case was first reported in November, and the new report is the first official publication of the case in a medical journal."

This lends a lot more credibility to the news.

This new article is also very misleading with it's inclusion of 'stem cells'. They did a bone marrow transplant, not a stem cell transplant. While there are stem cells (not embryonic stem cells) in bone marrow, calling it a stem cell transplant is incorrect.

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