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Sunday, August 28, 2005

Blood Cleansing

by Eko Prasetyo @ 10:40 AM

Got this from BBC

A new technique could allow transplant patients to receive organs from donors with a different blood group.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust carried out one of the first such transplants to use a the technique, which removes antibodies from blood.


I think this development will be a total revolution if it can be applied worldwide. Imagine the increase in the probability of lives of millions of people world-wide. Those who have their organs disfunctioned will have to wait shorter in order to get transplantation.

In negative side, the cost of organ transplantation could be higher and become more and more unreachable by the poors.