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Serendipity In The Fight Against AIDS?

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Craig Shapiro
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March 15, 2009 • 3:51 pm PDT
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A 42 year old American living in Berlin seems to have overcome AIDS while receiving Leukemia therapy. Checkout the full article here.

It would be interesting to know how many medical breakthroughs came about inadvertently? Seems shocking after 25 years of intense research...to stumble upon something this material.

Hooray for Science.

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Tags: health,; aids,; research,; leukemia

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