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Fighting rejection
The human body tends to reject implanted organs because the immune system attacks foreign cells. However, by giving the patient bone marrow from the same donor as the transplanted organ, the body can be ''educated'' to accept the new organ.

SOURCES: BMT InfoNet; BoneNew England Journal of Medicine; David H. Sachs, M.D., Harvard Medical School


Graphic: Globe Staff / Hwei Wen Foo