Good News About Marrow Injections

Organ transplants without rejection

jane2007 submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)

Three independent research teams have successfully performed organ transplantations that do not require the recipient to face a lifetime of immunosuppressant drugs to prevent rejection. Instead, the new techniques prevent rejection by training the immune system to recognize the new organ as its own.

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Scientists discover new virus caused deaths of transplant recipients from single donor

athena submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.biologynews.net)

"Scientists in the Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues in the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia and 454 Life Sciences have discovered a new virus that was responsible for the deaths of three transplant recipients who received organs from a single donor in Victoria, Australia. "

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