Pitt Study Reframes Understanding of Graft-Versus-Host Disease miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pitt Study Offers New Insight Into Graft-Versus-Host Disease miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New research challenges the prevailing hypothesis for how donor stem cell grafts cause graft-versus-host disease, or GVHD, and offers an alternative model that could guide development of novel therapies.
Cell grafts can help people fighting leukemia but they risk a dangerous immune reaction. An experimental way to filter donors’ cells might offer a solution.
A team lead by Fred Hutch physician-scientist Dr. Marie Bleakley has shown it can dramatically reduce chronic GVHD, a common debilitating side effect of stem cell transplantation in leukemia patients, using magnets to remove “naïve T cells” from the mixture of blood cells from a donor that are to be transplanted into the patient.