Nobel prize winner, Dr Joseph Murray, dies in Boston
Agencies: Boston (US), Nov 27 2012, 11:08 IST
with transplant patients, the immune system's rejection of foreign tissue.
After the operation, Richard had a functioning kidney transplanted from Ronald. Richard lived another eight years, marrying a nurse he met at the hospital and having two children.
"Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status," Murray said in his Nobel lecture.
"This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving."
Murray performed more transplants on identical twins over the next few years and tried kidney transplants on other relatives, including fraternal twins, learning more about how to suppress the immune system's rejection of foreign tissue.
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