Rejection was avoided for a few days using novel protocols. A pioneering technique has led to conversion of a human blood type-A donor kidney to type-O for transplantation into a type-O patient with ...

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 ...

More than 92,000 patients in the United States are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, and according to the Health Resources & Services Administration, 13 people die each day while waiting ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of a kidney in the lab After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney organ ...

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.