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Matching blood types from donor to recipient is one of the major problems in organ donation. Now, a team of researchers in Canada has developed an enzyme treatment to convert donated organs to the universal O blood type, allowing them to be safely tran… Continue reading Enzyme treatment could make donor organs compatible with any patient
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new kind of nanotherapy to enhance the effectiveness of a potential cure for type 1 diabetes. The innovation packages immunosuppressive drugs into nanoparticles to reduce the likelihood of a body … Continue reading Nanoparticle innovation promises improved type 1 diabetes treatment
In a historic procedure surgeons in the US have, for the first time, transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a living human. The patient is currently still alive, has not rejected the pig organ and is being carefully monitored at the Univers… Continue reading World-first pig-to-human heart transplant performed in US
Stem cell transplants are often used to treat blood cancers, but the process can be risky. In a new study in mice, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a way to make the process safer by targeting a patient’s faulty stem cel… Continue reading Chemotherapy-free stem cell transplant promises safer leukemia treatment
A major challenge when it comes to preserving tissues and organs for transplantation is preventing the buildup of ice crystals that can cause critical damage, but an emerging technology may help sidestep the whole issue. Scientists have used a promisin… Continue reading Beating heart tissue supercooled and revived for the first time
When a patient receives an organ transplant, they have to take drugs in order to keep their immune system from rejecting the organ – and those drugs often have serious side effects. Such medication may one day no longer be necessary, however, thanks to… Continue reading Blood vessel coating could make anti-rejection drugs unnecessary
Organ transplants save lives, but complications can arise if the recipient’s immune system rejects the foreign cells. An emerging technique reduces that risk by stripping the donor cells out of the donor organ and replacing them with the recipient’s ow… Continue reading Protein bath helps “recellularize” organs for safer transplants
Every day in the US, seventeen people die because they couldn’t get a organ transplant in time. An American biotech company called United Therapeutics is looking to pick up the lifesaving slack by producing a line of genetically-modified pigs for …read more
Continue reading Swine of the Times: Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants on Track for 2021
Glaucoma is a serious eye disease that can gradually cause vision loss, which is currently irreversible. But in a new cell culture study scientists found that removing a membrane at the back of the eye could help transplanted cells migrate into the opt… Continue reading Eye membrane removal may help transplanted cells reverse glaucoma damage
Getting transplanted tissue to behave like the original tissue isn’t always a smooth process, and one of the things physicians look out for following a procedure is how well it takes in oxygen. Wired devices called oximeters are the gold standard when … Continue reading Glowing bandage monitors oxygen uptake in transplanted tissue