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While treating a patient for leukemia, doctors inadvertently cured his case of AIDS These guys in Germany just cured AIDS! Of course, the procedure is so expensive, complicated, and risky that it's not replicable as a large-scale public health strategy, but we'll ignore that for a minute. Here's how they did it. Drs. Gero Hutter and Eckhard Thiel are blood cancer experts at the Charite Medical University in Berlin. Their patient, an American ex-pat, was suffering from leukemia as well as a full-blown case of AIDS . His case was so desperate that his doctors decided to get crazy and give him a bone-marrow transplant --(this isn't the crazy part)--using blood stem cells from a donor who was immune to HIV (this is). About 10 years ago, doctors discovered that a few of their gay male patients never developed AIDS, despite engaging in risky sex with hundreds of partners . It turned out that they had a rare mutation called Delta 32 that blocks a molecule in HIV from adheri...