Engineered Veto cells prevent rejection

An international team led by Weizmann Institute researchers has “turned off” the immune system’s automatic rejection of foreign transplants. They introduced the less toxic CD8+ veto immune cells into the body with the biochemical interleukin-15 to guide them to the lymph nodes.
http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/veto-on-disease#.UdIfyNiHcdp

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