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 ...

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

This kidney is receiving an enzyme that changes its blood type to that of a universal donor. (Credit: UBC/Nature Biomedical Engineering) The existence of different blood types is one of the most ...

Pouches of donated blood in a hospital. Scientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ into a person. The procedure — the first of its kind — could improve ...

Kidney transplantation is often seen as a lifeline for people with end-stage kidney disease. It can give patients a second chance at life. But the roa.

Making a Type-O kidney from a donor of another blood type has long been synthetic medicine's white whale. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...