Bibliograph

Cured, how the Berlin patients defeated HIV and forever changed medical science, Nathalia Holt

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Cured, how the Berlin patients defeated HIV and forever changed medical science, Nathalia Holt

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cured

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

858649761

Responsibility statement

Nathalia Holt

Sub title

how the Berlin patients defeated HIV and forever changed medical science

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

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