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It can't help that the only time I've heard of this so far is from this publication... Which appears to be a small-time local publication.

It's not even on their front page.

[Edit: When I posted this comment, the link to this submission was the Gulf Bay Area news or something like that.. It was a small gulf-state publication; NOT the BBC. I'd delete my comment since the title and the link have substantially changed, but there are replies, so I won't.]

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The New England Journal of Medicine is not a small-time local publication. And this is exactly what the article is about - it should be BIG news.

http://content.nejm.org/content/vol360/issue7/index.dtl

Thanks for the link. I'm not able to read it without a subscription.

Is the relevant article titled: "Not an HIV Cure, but Encouraging New Directions"?

I guess its just an editors comment, and the source article is "Brief Report: Long-Term Control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 Stem-Cell Transplantation"

Anyway, I can't access it as well. This is the way scientific journals promote knowledge :/

Far from being suppressed, this was covered in the news media when it was first announced and received some minor fanfare. It's interesting from a research point of view, perhaps, but it isn't a feasible treatment, because the procedure (full bone marrow replacement) is too risky, not to mention extremely complex and expensive. The normal AIDS drugs are still the state of the art. Even if you were an AIDS patient with an unlimited budget, you would probably not want this treatment unless you could somehow foresee that the drugs weren't going to work for you.

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