College of Medicine – Tucson researchers tackle immune rejection of biomedical implants
Sept. 25, 2023
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To learn more about what causes the body to reject biomedical implants, a team including BIO5 members Kellen Chen and Geoffrey Gurtner identified a protein that appears to help drive this response and hopes their discoveries will improve the design and safety of biomedical implants.