Patient cured of Leukemia and HIV!

Over winter break, my father told me a very interesting story he had heard on the radio concerning an individual in Germany who was "cured" of HIV and Leukemia. I was a little skeptical at first, but still very interested, so I went home and researched more about this person. His name is Timothy Ray Brown. A 48 year old American who underwent a type of stem cell transplant, more specifically bone marrow transplant in 2007 in Berlin. Mr. Brown was about to undergo a form of stem cell therapy, but his doctors decided to go with a transplant in order to try get rid of the HIV. A Stem cell transplant is a last ditch effort to cure cancer's such as leukemia due to the fact that they are very dangerous. The donor and patient need to have very...
similar blood and immune systems in order for the transplant to work or else the patient will die. In other words the chances for success are very, very rare. Luckily for Mr. Brown, the donor had a mutation on CCR5 , a receptor gene, in white blood cells, that prevent the AIDS virus from entering and infecting the human cell. The transplant was successful and Mr. Brown has seen no trace of either the HIV virus or the leukemia since he underwent surgery four years ago. Doctors claim that, "Brown's cell counts remain in the range of people without HIV," (