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- THE WEEK, Page 18HEALTH & SCIENCEEt Cetera
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- TRANSPLANT TRIUMPH
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- The drugs used to keep patients from rejecting transplanted
- organs work by suppressing the immune system -- which in turn
- leaves the body open to infections and even cancer. But a
- recently developed technique targets only the new tissue.
- Creating a hybrid molecule out of a human protein and an
- antibody, scientists tricked mouse immune systems into accepting
- human pancreatic cells while rejecting other foreign tissue. If
- it works in people, transplants will become far safer.
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