Teen takes on donor's immune system

[Sankari]

A 15-year-old Australian liver transplant patient has defied modern medicine by taking on her donor's immune system.

Demi-Lee Brennan had a liver transplant after she suffered liver failure. Nine months later, doctors at Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital were amazed to find the teenager's blood group had changed to the donor's blood type.

Further tests revealed the stem cells from the donor liver had penetrated her bone marrow.

Dr Michael Stormon says he and his colleagues were even more surprised when they found the girl's immune system had almost totally been replaced by that of the donor, meaning she no longer had to take anti-rejection drugs.
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ABC.

 

[stevenazari1]

lets hope her donor wasnt a man

or we could find a lee brennan.

 

[Jongo]

wow

 

[james.miller]

thats....amazing. you dont hear of that happening very often

 

[James07]

Never knew that was even possible!

 

[Mr Jones]

Now that's really interesting! Thanks for sharing

 

[Raymond Lin]

Never knew that was even possible!

Well...isn't that how bone marrow transplant work ?

Just never knew it can be done "accidentally"

 

[TheCrow]

Well...isn't that how bone marrow transplant work ?

Just never knew it can be done "accidentally"

for a bone marrow transplant i think they need to basicly kill the host (kill white blood cells etc) , then replace with the new stuff, which may still be rejected and they will need drugs all there life to stay alive. I could be wrong though.

 

[MHayes]

Stem cells are magic.

 

[Dunks]

Ignore.

 

[Burnsy2023]

That really is amazing. I wonder if they can replicate it to stop future rejections?

Burnsy

 

[Roland0]

that must be very interesting for a lot of biomedical types

 

[FrostedNipple]

well the liver is the cleaner of blood! or at least i think it is! Looks like she'll be needing a new blood donor card

 

[Nix]

Not if she's gay.

 

[Marky]

Whoa thats incredible!

 

[peetee]

well shes going to become a labrat aint she interesting, lets hope they can figure out how/why/how to replicate

 

[Lighters]

wow thats cool but a little creepy at the same time

 

[stevenazari1]

hope they can figure out how/why/how to replicate

yeah those hows and whys and more hows

 

[Tefal]

Interesting this seams like an accidental/natural version of what they where trying to do last year by planning to transplant some bone marrow, along with the organ. but i think they had to kill the old bone marrow with radiation first so it wasn't very possible.

But this suggests that even a few stem cells could do the job much more efficiently.

 

[West]

Incredible..

We are the Borg.. you will be assimilated..