As a practicing dermatologist, Sherrie Divito sees lots of patients each week at Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston. She also sees lots of research opportunities. One that grabbed her attention is graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), which can arise after a bone-marrow transplant for leukemia, lymphoma, or various other diseases. What happens is immune cells in the donated marrow recognize a transplant patients body as foreign and launch an attack.
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