Posts Tagged ‘immune system’

Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation’s capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify.
“A whole new doorway of hope opened,” says Tom Otten, a suburban St. Louis police officer who traveled halfway across [...]

This article from Science Daily came out this past week. It is well worth the minute it takes to read it.
Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.
This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing, closer study of immune system defects [...]