Blood Donation

Creating Universal Donor Pool for Transplantation

Published in Blood Weekly, June 28th, 1999

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have devised a technique that may make transplants available to nearly everyone with a partially matched donor.

The study, published in the June 3, 1999, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, is a direct result of discoveries into the fundamental workings of the immune system, specifically the intricate signaling process that enables some immune cells to identify and resist foreign invaders.

Groundwork for the current study involved research into T cells, immune system cells that fight infection, stand guard against cancer, and attack foreign tissue. It is T cells'...

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Source: Blood Weekly (1999-06-28)

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