[News] Mismatched organs not rejected

[Michaelangelica]

Current medical practice is to find a perfect donor-recipient match through tissue typing. The problem is that it is only in very rare cases that identical matches are available. Sometime it is the closest genetic matches that can result in the most profound transplant rejection.

 

By looking at the interactions between the immune system and molecules on the transplanted tissue, Dr Archbold has shown that if the 3D structures of molecules on the transplanted tissue are different to that of the host, then the transplant may have a better survival rate.

 

It is as though the immune system can't 'see' the molecules on the transplanted tissue and effectively 'accepts' the transplant.

 

This revolutionary finding provides crucial evidence that current organ donation strategies should be reconsidered.

Mismatched organs not rejected (Science Alert)

Amazing how science can do backflips like this in science and overnight trash "established truths"