“Before I hear the treatment and the condition,” Chen Shui said. “From what you’re saying, Doctor Ryu, I’m going to be in danger because my transplanted heart won’t be able to function. Then, what if I use the treatment and get another heart in three months? I think that will work,” Chen Shui said.0

Young-Joon was a little disgusted by his sordid way of thinking.0

‘It’s not like switching the parts of a car…’0

Normally, when someone received an organ transplant from another person, the immune system recognized it as a foreign pathogenic substance and destroyed it: this was called a rejection. To solve this problem, modern medicine used three strategies: the first was to ensure a complete histocompatibility antigen match between the donor and recipient, the second was to use non-specific immunosuppressive drugs, and the last was to induce immune tolerance.0

For the first strategy, doctors tested the blood type and antigens on the donor and recipient’s white blood cells, called human leukocyte antigen testing (HLA testing), to determine compatibility. It was very rare for the recipient and donor to have a perfect...0