Wednesday, September 24, 2014

HIV in Hiding [Video] - The 64th Annual Lindau Meeting

Can someone be cured of the AIDS virus? Video examined this question during this summer's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which brought early-career biologists together with Nobel Prize–winners


Sep 24, 2014 | |

In 2008, Timothy Ray Brown became the first person to be cured of HIV—or so many claim. Brown is known as “the Berlin patient,” and six years on, the virus has still not been detected in his blood. In this Video, reporter Lorna Stewart wants to know the implications of his remarkable treatment. But her dreams of an imminent cure quickly fade as Nobel laureate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who discovered HIV, brings Lorna back to Earth with a bump.


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