| Author |
Holt, Nathalia, 1980- author.
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| Publication |
New York, New York : Dutton, [2014]
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| Description |
xxi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Call # |
616.9792 H |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index. |
| Subject |
HIV infections -- Treatment -- Germany -- Berlin.
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Gene therapy -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
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HIV infections -- Treatment -- Germany.
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| ISBN |
9780525953920 (hbk.) : |
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0525953922 (hbk.) |
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