For those with kidney failure, a transplant is often the greatest promise of a healthier, longer life. Yet thousands wait ...

The technique uses an enzyme that has long been known to be capable of "snipping" off the antigen groups on the exterior of ...

In a first-in-human experiment, an enzyme-converted kidney was transplanted into a brain-dead recipient. For two days, the ...

The transplanted kidney did start to show signs of type A blood again by the third day, which led to an immune response – but ...

Researchers report the first human test of an enzyme-converted A-type kidney to universal O, which if validated in future ...

This area of research is still in the early stages, but it could someday help reduce wait times for patients needing kidney ...

Scientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ into a person. The procedure — the ...

The kidney, a critical organ for waste filtration and fluid regulation, is the subject of a groundbreaking molecular mapping project that could reshape our understanding of renal health. Despite ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for ...

Chinese and Canadian scientists report organ with blood type A converted to universal type O in donor-centric approach ...

Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more ...

The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...