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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lauran Neergaard

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight hiv - Caught on Camera

HIV Cell Therapy - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients' own immune cells.

On Tuesday, researchers said a single dose of those revved-up cells strongly suppressed HIV in two people — one for nearly a year and the other for nearly two years — without requiring their usual medicines.

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