ESTABLISHING peace between the warring immune systems of transplant patients and their donated organs could spare them from having to take powerful immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their lives. Although this approach is in its early stages, it is looking very promising.
Researchers have been trying for years to find gentler ways of preventing rejection. Now a team led by Samuel Strober of Stanford University in California is using an ingenious strategy to prevent people who received kidney transplants from rejecting their new organs. To wean them off drugs, they gave the patients temporary transplants of cells belonging to…
