After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

Scientists have taken a decisive step toward ending one of transplant medicine’s most stubborn bottlenecks: the need to match donor organs to a recipient’s blood type. By chemically reengineering a ...

For those with kidney failure, a transplant is often the greatest promise of a healthier, longer life. Yet thousands wait years for a match that never comes. Incompatibility of blood type is one of ...

A team of researchers has seemingly managed to do just that: they successfully converted a Type A human kidney into a ...

Scientists move one step closer to "universal" donor organs with a successful kidney transplant in a brain-dead patient. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Transplanting organs is tricky business. If you need an organ, you can't receive a donation from just anybody; it follows the same rules as blood type compatibility. For example, someone with blood ...