{"id":235142,"date":"2026-04-14T02:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/sibling-stem-cell-transplant-leads-to-rare-hiv-remission-in-oslo-patient"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:10:01","slug":"sibling-stem-cell-transplant-leads-to-rare-hiv-remission-in-oslo-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/sibling-stem-cell-transplant-leads-to-rare-hiv-remission-in-oslo-patient","title":{"rendered":"Sibling Stem Cell Transplant Leads to Rare HIV Remission in \u2018Oslo Patient\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sibling-stem-cell-transplant-leads-to-rare-hiv-remission-in-oslo-patient.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After receiving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cell<\/a> transplant from his brother, a 63-year-old Norwegian man known as the \u201cOslo patient\u201d has become one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/7th-hiv-remission-raises-hope-of-long-lasting-treatment-for-more-people\">only a handful of people<\/a> to see their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hiv\">HIV<\/a> (human immunodeficiency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">virus<\/a>) go into long-term remission.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hiv\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">HIV<\/a> can now be controlled with medication that stops the virus from replicating, the virus remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hivs-cunning-strategy-for-hiding-in-our-body-finally-revealed\">in the body<\/a>, rebounding when the drugs are stopped. So case studies like this one are invaluable for researchers working towards a full cure.<\/p>\n<p>The Oslo man was given a bone marrow stem cell transplant to treat a <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/diseases\/6192-myelodysplastic-syndrome-myelodysplasia\">rare type of blood cancer<\/a>. Discovering at the last minute that his brother carried a rare genetic mutation previously shown to resist HIV, researchers led by a team from Oslo University Hospital closely tracked the operation\u2019s impact on the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving a stem cell transplant from his brother, a 63-year-old Norwegian man known as the \u201cOslo patient\u201d has become one of only a handful of people to see their HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) go into long-term remission. While HIV can now be controlled with medication that stops the virus from replicating, the virus remains [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}