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...JDF/Harvard Center is a special undertaking because it involves an unusually broad spectrum of specialists, from transplant surgeons to immunologists to embryologists, all cooperating and challenging one another to find an effective path forward on this important problem," says Douglas A. Melton, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the College and a leading researcher at the Center. Melton's seven-year-old son suffers from Type I diabetes...
...center's research takes a novel approach to treating the disease by seeking to transplant functional islet cells into patients without immunosuppressants. While these drugs prevent side effects such as rejection of the transplant, they can also seriously infringe upon the patients' everyday activities...
...research, it is important not to promise a cure when we don't know when or if it can be obtained," says Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, Center director, associate professor of research at HMS and transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital...
Forget, for a moment, the hubbub about human cloning. French surgeons on Wednesday wrote another page of science fiction into the medical books by sewing a dead man's hand onto a living patient. A multinational team of doctors working in Lyon spent three and a half hours transplanting the hand and part of an arm from a brain-dead donor to a 48-year-old Austrialian businessman who lost his lower arm in a logging accident almost a decade ago. [Ed. Note: In a bizarre twist, it was later reported that the patient actually lost his limb using...
Still, the Louisville team is optimistic. Heartened by their animal experiments, in which flaps of bone, tendon and muscle were attached to young pigs for up to three months, the doctors convinced their review boards at the University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital that a hand transplant was, as the team's chief surgeon, Dr. Warren C. Breidenbach of Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center, put it, "the next logical step...