If an organ in your body (such as the heart, kidneys, or liver) is not working well enough because of an illness or injury, you may need an organ transplant. An organ transplant involves surgically ...

Dr. Juliet Emamaullee, transplant surgeon at CHLA, coauthored a study to develop an approach to predict and prevent liver transplant rejection in children. Children with liver transplants must take ...

University of Pittsburgh researchers have identified a type of immune cell that drives chronic organ transplant failure in a mouse model of kidney transplantation and uncovered pathways that could be ...

The partners are launching ImmuneScape, a multiomics program using spatial and single-cell sequencing to study immune drivers ...

Technically speaking, the transplant was a success.

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 August, we reported on the decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to not pursue a proposed Medicare policy that would have restricted coverage of a blood test used to ...

Researchers at UCSF have developed a novel, potentially life-saving approach that may prevent antibodies from triggering immune rejection of engineered therapeutic and transplant cells. Rejection ...

A novel approach to organ transplantation allowed patients to wean off anti-rejection drugs after two years, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial presented Monday. The drugs, called ...

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 ...

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 ...