{"id":88389,"date":"2019-03-05T10:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/advances-in-stem-cell-treatment-give-hope-to-millions-with-incurable-diseases"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:22:43","slug":"advances-in-stem-cell-treatment-give-hope-to-millions-with-incurable-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/advances-in-stem-cell-treatment-give-hope-to-millions-with-incurable-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Advances in stem cell treatment give hope to millions with \u2018incurable\u2019 diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/advances-in-stem-cell-treatment-give-hope-to-millions-with-incurable-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The announcement that a London man has become the second in the world to be \u201cfunctionally cured\u201d of HIV is a major advance in stem cell transplant therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The man \u2014 who wishes to remain anonymous \u2014 was given stem cells from a donor with genetic resistance to the disease and he has now been in long term remission for 18 months without medication.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough comes ten years after the first such case of a patient with HIV going into sustained remission, known as the \u2018Berlin Patient.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/03\/05\/advances-stem-cell-treatment-gives-hope-millions-incurable-diseases\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/03\/05\/advances-stem-ce...-diseases\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement that a London man has become the second in the world to be \u201cfunctionally cured\u201d of HIV is a major advance in stem cell transplant therapy. The man \u2014 who wishes to remain anonymous \u2014 was given stem cells from a donor with genetic resistance to the disease and he has now been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88389","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\/88389","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}