@article{706119, author = {Holt, Nathalia,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/706119}, title = {Cured : how the Berlin patients defeated HIV and forever changed medical science /}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {706119}, pages = {xxi, 313 pages ;}, }