Browsing: Transplant

At the age of 15, medics feared Katie Mitchell was coming to the end of her life after suffering irreversible lung damage and heart failure from…

October 7, 20252 min readScientists Perform First-of-Its-Kind Transplant Using Kidney with a Converted Blood TypeRecipient diagnosed with brain death received a type-O organ, which is compatible…

Researchers converted a kidney with type-A blood to type-O.Credit: Sherry Yates Young/Science Photo LibraryScientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the…

August 28, 20254 min readWhat Does the First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant Mean for Xenotransplantation?Surgeons think the first transplantation of a pig lung in a human is…

August 28, 20254 min readNew Cell Transplant for Type 1 Diabetes Sidesteps Need for ImmunosuppressantsScientists treated a person’s type 1 diabetes with genetically modified insulin-producing cells…

Surgeons have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain dead human recipient for the first time and found it functioned for nine…

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