#transplants

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

How do you think someone who has had a transplant would work out? Like say Kelly, if she got a new pair of lungs transplanted do you think they would stay if she morphed or if she morphed and demorphed her CF would return?

Poll!

Would a transplanted organ get "healed" out of existence if the transplantee morphed?

Yes

No

Yes, but __________

No, but __________

[confused Eggman noises]

Voting ended onSep 13, 2025

[punkrockhistory]

Happy Birthday Tim Armstrong, member of Operation Ivy, singer/guitarist for the punk rock band Rancid and hip hop/punk rock supergroup Transplants, born on this day in 1965, Albany, California

[free-queer-books]

TRANSPlants Issues 1-3 edited by Aster Olsen

A digital zine filled with original fiction, art, and essay focused on transness and place.

All three issues of this zine are available digitally for free/pay-what-you-can!

Issue 1: Seattle: https://asterolsen.itch.io/transplants-issue-1

Issue 2: Reflection: https://asterolsen.itch.io/transplants-issue-2

Issue 3: Breakdown: https://asterolsen.itch.io/transplants-issue-3

[bastionofbibliophiles]

There's a potential cure for autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis; transplant rejection; and many kinds of allergies, actively in development!

Typical vaccines work by training your immune system to see something as a threat, so your body will attack harmful bacteria and viruses before they can get established or do serious damage.

"Tolerogenic vaccines", also called "inverse vaccines", do the opposite, and teach your immune system that something isn't a threat and therefore it shouldn't be attacked. At the moment, the only way to stop someone's immune system from attacking one thing is to suppress it entirely, which makes that person vulnerable to many other infections.

Tolerogenic vaccines could be a huge help for illnesses where your immune system has started attacking your own body, like multiple sclerosis (attacking nerve cells), type 1 diabetes (attacking insulin-producing pancreatic cells), and rheumatoid arthritis (attacking joints).

They could also be used to tell a person's immune system not to attack a transplanted organ. Right now, anyone who gets a transplant can expect to need to take immunosuppressants for the rest of their life, just to prevent their immune system from killing the transplant. Inverse vaccines could change that!

And of course, allergies occur when your immune system misidentifies, say, peanuts as a threat, and then overreacts to any exposure to the allergen. Tolerogenic vaccines could cure people of allergies to foods, medicines, and common pets!

[balkanradfem]

Planting gifted plants! Nothing bad will ever happen to them :)))

[sixseisliu]

My playlist went from dragula to rock lobster to rose tattoo, and i think that sums me up pretty well actually lol

[bestbandname]

Round 1:

Which band name do you like best?

Transplants

Steam Powered Giraffe

Voting ended onJan 14

Note that this is about band names not their music or members.