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An eight-year-old has been spared from taking life-long drugs to stop her body rejecting a kidney transplant thanks to a UK-first treatment.

Scrabble-loving Aditi Shankar will not need to use life-long medicine to prevent her body from rejecting the organ.

Doctors reprogrammed eight-year-old Aditi's immune system so she does not need daily anti-rejection drugs.

The stem cell transplant performed at Londons Great Ormond Street (Gosh), means the eight-year-olds body accepted the organ as her own, sparing her a lifetime of medication.

A little girl's immune system was "reprogrammed" by her mother before receiving one of her kidneys, a first in the UK.

Aditi Shankar, eight, has pioneering treatment resulting in her body accepting donor kidney as its own

Aditi Shankar has become the UK's first case of a kidney transplant that doesn't require lifelong immunosuppressant drugs afterwards - letting the eight-year-old live a normal and active life

An eight-year-old girl from London has become the first person in the UK to have a kidney transplant that her body won't reject without drugs after doctors "reprogrammed" her DNA.

Eight-old-girl Aditi Shankar became the first person in the UK to get a kidney transplant without needing to get life-long drugs. How did the doctors make it possible?

Scrabble-loving Aditi Shankar will not need to use life-long medicine to prevent her body from rejecting the organ.