Transplant joy as girl, 8, first in UK to receive pioneering treatment | Tech News
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.
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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 London's Great Ormond Street (Gosh), means the eight-year-old's 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.