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The Transplantation of the Kidney

A kidney can be transplanted from one person to another, but the body is normally "immune" to the graft and rejects it. In certain special cases, however, the immune response of the body can be circumvented

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 201 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “The Transplantation of the Kidney” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 4 (), p. 57
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1059-57