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Published online 23 January 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.521
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Organ transplants without rejection
Immune system trained to tolerate transplanted organs.
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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