Transplant Rejection: Two-Way Exchange of Molecules between Donor and Recipient (Medical News Today)
Submitted by iw on October 31, 2008 – 3:35 pmNo Comment
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A new discovery by London biologists may yield new ways of handling the problem of transplant rejection. In a research article published in the November 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org/), the scientists confirm the two-way transfer of a molecule (called "MHC") that instructs the immune system to tell "self" from "non-self.
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