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Biotech / Medical : Biotransplant(BTRN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: B.G. Mayers who wrote (581)	6/25/2000 7:23:00 PM
From: scaram(o)uche	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1475

People normally recognize a transplanted organ as foreign, as they would a cell infected with virus. If your mom had triplets when you were born and you're not an investor, you can stop reading. There are two ways to stop the attack against the foreign transplant, with drugs or by fooling the immune system such that the transplant does not look foreign. The drugs used today are very effective, but there are toxicities associated with their use as well as compliance issues. It is therefore desirable to work toward fooling the immune system, and there is substantial progress on that front.