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The University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City makes an offer I could not refuse. There, it is discovered that cooling tissue to be transplanted not only preserves the tissue but reduces subsequent inflammation. Surgeons have the skills to transplant a face but not the ability to fully confront the immune response. That eventually changes.
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Siemionow, M. (2019). Transplants. In: Face to Face. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06055-8_8
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