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Teen Takes On Donor's Immune System
Leibel writes "The Australian ABC News is reporting that 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. 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. They were even more surprised when they found the girl's immune system had almost totally been replaced by that of the donor, meaning she no longer had to take anti-rejection drugs. 'Dr. Michael Stormon says his team is now trying to identify how the phenomenon happened and whether it can be replicated. "That's probably easier said than done... I think it's a long shot," he said. "I think it's a unique system of events whereby this happened. "We postulate there's a number of different issues - the type of liver failure that she had, some of the drugs that we use early on to suppress the immune system and also that she suffered an infection with a virus called CMV, or cytomegalovirus, which can also suppress the immune system."'"
kids these days.
must... stay... awake...
Kill her! Who knows what other powers she might have?
Is she related to Sigorney Weaver? That may have unexpected consequences, in the long run. What was the name of the company treating the girl again?
maybe the tissues are unionized?
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After 18 months she turned into a clone of the 50 year old male liver donor. Doctor's response, "hey at least the liver works".
... liver costs will skyrocket.
Perhaps it has something to do with the virus she caught--it suppressed the immune system to the point where it had to 'reboot', as it were, and apparently recognized the new hardware on boot?
Which would seem to indicate that the immune system BIOS has some kind of PnP support--I guess that'd explain some of the viruses...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
What the hell kind of car analogy is that?
whenever she needs a new body part, she'll just go and hack one off another person's body and use it. Now, she just needs a cool nickname
How about "Frankenstein"?
Dude... "Get out of the car, get back in the car." It's a classic.
Haven't heard it before? Here goes:
A mechanical engineer, hydraulic engineer, electrical engineer and a computer programmer were riding together in the car, and it stops. They all get out and look at the car. The mechanical engineer checks the tires, the hydraulic engineer checks the brakes, and the electrical engineer checks the voltage on the battery. The computer programmer goes "Guys cmon, all we gotta do is get out of the car and get back in the car". They get back in the car, it starts right back up and they're on their way.
They ARE out to get you simply because They are in it for themselves and they don't care about you.
"They saved Hitler's liver!"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Worst... pick-up... line... EVER!
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That's a very common mistake, but actually "Frankenstein" was the name of the doctor who created it, not the monster himself!
Actually, it was not a mistake; I'm well aware of that.
However, the monster itself has no proper given name, so we have to improvise, and the only name that would be a near universally understood reference is 'Frankenstein'.
Besides, the monster, as a creation of Frankenstein could reasonably called 'a Frankenstein', perhaps even 'the Frankenstein' in the same way we refer to 'a Rembrandt' or 'a Van Gogh'.
The Borg have arrived... resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.