By giving kidney transplant patients a dose of donor bone marrow, researchers have for the second time enabled a majority of recipients to stop taking immune suppressants despite having received poorly matched organs.
The new study, in the March 7 Science Translational Medicine, accomplished the feat in five of eight transplant recipients who weren’t spot-on matches with their donors.
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