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Published online 31 October 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031027-9
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Designer transplant drug shows promise in monkeys
Compound may block organ rejection without side-effects.
A designer drug stops organ transplants being rejected - without the typical side-effects seen in monkey experiments, its makers say.
Medicines currently used to protect transplanted hearts, kidneys and livers can have noxious knock-on effects.
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