This is a medical breakthrough

[Steel_Tomb]

This is huge, in Biology we always discussed how big a problem an immune response to foreign objects i.e. new organs in the body was. If this can be mass produced, it will mean a revolution in organ transplants. Skybird, would you be able to translate part of that article? I only know a very small amount of German, so thats a bit out of my leauge! Danke!

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Well done Germany

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Well done Germany

I prefer "well done team.

[peterloo]

The team did a fabulous job

In this way, I'm sure organ transplants will be hindered by the immunity reaction in a much lessor extent, and definitely more lives can be saved.

Keep it up!

[Yahoshua]

This made me stop and wonder for a second.

Would this discovery make it easier for patients in need of organ transplants to afford such operations?

I'm not too keen on the specifics of organ transplants but I understand that how the procedure works now, in order for one to receive a transplant one must have the same blood type and meet specific health criteria (nonsmoker, no contagious disease) to qualify right?

[caspofungin]

i can't read german, so i can't comment on that article specifically, but 2 institutions in the us (stanford and i think someplace in boston) have already reported 2 seperate techniques that have allowed them to keep kidney recipients off immunosuppressants for 3 and 5 years respectively.

[Wolfehunter]

I see only one problem with this wonderful technology:hmm: .. Well two problems,

First is the pharmaceutical industry. They will loose a major busness on there medical products aka drugs.

Second will be who could afford the unique medical treatments? Will it be for just the privileged or everyone?

Great to know you can smoke till your lungs are black and say I want to replace them with new grown young ones.

Or remove my cancerous tissue with a new one. This is all great on paper but is it practical? Will it work in our sad world of the

I would be nice to see this medical breakthrough available for the world.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb

This is huge, in Biology we always discussed how big a problem an immune response to foreign objects i.e. new organs in the body was. If this can be mass produced, it will mean a revolution in organ transplants. Skybird, would you be able to translate part of that article? I only know a very small amount of German, so thats a bit out of my leauge! Danke!

I just wait and watch. sooner or later international reports on it will be available anyway. the absic message I have summed up anyway. Only one problem with one type of immune cells remains - this is the type of cells the remaining drug is needed for. Else, the immune system does not produce any aversive reactions anymore. Der Spiegel International eventually will pick up the story soon. I let you know as soon as something in English is found.