No more lifelong immunosuppressants for organ transplant patients?

A major hurdle in organ transplants is the human body itself, as a transplanted organ is usually seen as foreign and attacked by the immune system. — dpa

A new transplant therapy could potentially help patients avoid the need for lifelong anti-rejection drugs, a new study suggests.

Scientists have developed a new technique that involves transplant patients receiving a pioneering therapy made by certain cells that have a role in the body’s immune system.