An Israeli scientist said Sunday that he may have solved the most serious problem of organ transplants–the body’s natural rejection of foreign tissues. Prof. David Nelkin, head of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital’s department of immunohemaeotology, announced that he has succeeded in isolating a human blood protein that would inhibit the rejection. He said injections of the protein into animals that had undergone kidney and skin grafts produced highly promising results.
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