April 23, 2010

Why I hate forrest gump

well not really, but he did beat me to the post for the latest win for Cellestis
"For transplant recipients whose immune systems are already compromised by anti-rejection medications, the emergence of immune monitoring of CMV-specific T-cell responses in transplant medicine is an exciting development," said Assoc Prof Atul Humar, Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada. "Immune monitoring may potentially allow physicians not only to gauge a patient's risk of developing post-transplant CMV disease, but also to assist in determining the most appropriate management pathway on an individual, patient-by-patient basis."
It's all to do with Quantiferon and cytomegalovirus, which is important to those that have transplants.