
Girl, 8, gets UK-first kidney transplant without need for life-long drugs
Aditi Shankar’s immune system was 'reprogrammed' after a stem cell transplant by doctors at Gosh and as a result her body accepted a donor kidney as its own.
Aditi Shankar’s immune system was 'reprogrammed' after a stem cell transplant by doctors at Gosh and as a result her body accepted a donor kidney as its own.
A couple from Liverpool have vowed that their show will go on, despite one donating a kidney to the other during rehearsals.
The successful procedure brings doctors one step closer to animal-human transplants.