Cured : how the Berlin patients defeated HIV and forever changed medical science / Nathalia Holt.
- Holt, Nathalia, 1980-
- Date:
- [2014]
- Books
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Description
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.
Publication/Creation
New York, New York : Dutton, [2014]
Physical description
xxi, 313 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
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Location Status History of MedicineFEJ.37.AA9-10Open shelves
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- 9780525953920
- 0525953922