Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant 146
An anonymous reader writes "A woman in need of a lung transplant got her new lungs from someone with a peanut allergy who died of anaphylactic shock. Seven months after the surgery, the woman was at an organ transplant support group when she ate a peanut butter cookie and had a violent allergic reaction. So how had the woman's new lungs brought along a peanut allergy? A blog post dives into the medical details and explains that immune cells in the donated lungs couldn't have lived in the new body for long enough to cause the reaction... however, if they encountered an allergen (i.e. something peanuty) shortly after being transplanted, they could have trained the woman's native immune cells to respond."
Re:Idle? (Score:5, Informative)
Agreed. At first I Thought "Well the only sources appear to be blogs" so I understood the idea of putting it under idle.
BUT, it's on the NCBI Medical Publication website, here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18926410 [nih.gov]
So I don't know why they didn't just link that and put this under... I dunno... Is there a Bio or medicine section? Science if nothing else.
Re:Idle? (Score:4, Informative)
Remove the "idle." from the URL.
Re:Idle? (Score:2, Informative)
My workaround is to middle-click on the comment headline to expand it AND open it in another tab. That doesn't collapse the rest of the thread in the current window. Then every minute or two I hit Ctrl-W 50 times to clean up.
Chrome has a nice feature to help you there... "Close tabs to the right" or just "close other tabs"