Horrifying to read. I don’t think we’re ready yet for radical transplantation like this until we perfect the immune-system reset procedure first that allows for doing away with anti-rejection drugs.
Whatever happened to that research? I had read there was some success in resetting a person’s immune system, by taking out bone marrow immune stem cells from both the donor and donee, letting the stem cells mature together in-vitro, and then injecting them back into the bone (after zapping the donee’s original bone marrow), giving the person an immune system that now saw both tissues as ‘self’.
Horrifying to read. I don’t think we’re ready yet for radical transplantation like this until we perfect the immune-system reset procedure first that allows for doing away with anti-rejection drugs.
Whatever happened to that research? I had read there was some success in resetting a person’s immune system, by taking out bone marrow immune stem cells from both the donor and donee, letting the stem cells mature together in-vitro, and then injecting them back into the bone (after zapping the donee’s original bone marrow), giving the person an immune system that now saw both tissues as ‘self’.