Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The kidney, pre-transplant, in a perfusion device which is used to circulate a solution that contains the converting enzymes.

Human blood already comes in a bewildering variety of types, but researchers have now identified a new one so rare that only three people on the planet are known to carry it. The finding exposes just ...

In a step toward increasing access to donor organs, scientists have converted a blood-type-A kidney to blood type O and then transplanted it into a brain-dead person. The kidney, which had essentially ...

Cell therapy is an advanced biomedical approach that utilizes living cells as therapeutic agents to treat disease or repair tissue. 4 Scientists isolate cells from a patient or a healthy donor and ...

Research uncovering the origin of pineoblastoma, a rare pediatric brain tumor, has also revealed a dependency across multiple brain tumor types that share a similar molecular program. Scientists at St ...

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 ...