Hope of insulin cell transplant

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Scientists working towards pancreatic cell transplants as a cure for diabetes have taken the first step to getting around the problem of immune rejection.

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Cancer drug effectively treats transplant rejections

sea-maid submitted, created time 1 week 4 days (esciencenews.com)

University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have discovered a new therapy for transplant patients, targeting the antibody-producing plasma cells that can cause organ rejection.

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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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Blood vessels grown from patient's own tissues used successfully in human patients

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.nytimes.com)

Thirteen months and so far so good. Unlike earlier techniques used in Japan, which involved growing cells on a scaffold that slowly dissolved after implantation, scientists in Argentina grew whole stretches of blood vessel from the patients' own cells. The patients in question have damaged veins and arteries in their arms from regular dialysis.

This does not involve stem cells of any kind. A strip of skin is removed from the patient, but the fibroblast and endothelial cells are taken from the inside of the veins in that strip of skin

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