Xenotransplantation (Baboon Marrow)

Patient/Doctors Wait for Clues to Transplant Success

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 5th, 1996

Inside the body of a baboon marrow transplant patient, a biological battle is being waged that could revolutionize AIDS treatment and alter the future of organ transplants.

Bone marrow cells from a baboon are struggling to plant themselves in the 38-year-old's body, where, doctors hope, they begin to produce a parallel immune system to fight the AIDS that is killing him.

The patient received the cells by injection December 14, 1995, and now waits at his Oakland, California, home to find out if he is expected to live or die.

The operation was made possible after family members, including his sister who lives in Hopkinton, New...

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