$17 million grant will explore immune cells in inaccessible tissues of the human body
Tissue-resident B cells likely have important differences that affect autoimmunity and transplant rejectionCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama ...
Tag: Transplantation
Kidney transplant patients need even better aftercare!
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and dialysis patients especially, have a significantly higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than healthy ...
Biophotonic therapy eliminates bacteria and viruses from organs before transplantation
Method developed by scientists in Brazil and Canada can prevent transmission of diseases to organ recipients; the number of transplants ...
Living transplant donors need long-term monitoring, too
UCSF researchers recommend creation of national donor registry While organ transplant recipients receive continual care as the end-stage treatment to ...
Lung cancer treatments vary among the Asian communities
A study from the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, sought to examine possible health disparities in the ...
First birth after robot-assisted uterus transplant
Credit: Photo by Lennart Wiman A boy 48 centimeters long, weighing 2900 grams, is the first baby born after the ...
Hepatitis C-infected hearts and lungs safely transplanted
Team prevents transmission of virus, reports good outcomes at 6 months for 35-of-35 thoracic organ recipients Boston, MA -- Infectious ...
Researchers’ breakthrough in tackling challenge of antifungal resistance
Transatlantic partnership's ground-breaking work to develop a better understanding of antifungal drug resistanceCredit: Swansea University Ground-breaking work by university experts ...
Racial disparities persist in access to kidney transplants
New Haven, Conn. -- In a new study of patients awaiting kidney transplants, Yale researchers found significant racial disparities. This ...
Shorter stays in a skilled nursing facility tied to higher risk for readmission
High hospital readmission rates indicate that many elderly heart failure patients may be sent home too soon from skilled nursing ...
Transplanted bone marrow endothelial progenitor cells delay ALS disease progression
A new preclinical study finds that the regenerative cell therapy boosts motor neuron survival by repairing the blood-spinal cord barrierCredit: ...
3D printed tissues may keep athletes in action
Rice University bioengineers lead effort to print scaffolds to heal bone and cartilageCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 28, ...
Biomedical engineers grow cardiac patches to help people recover from heart attacks
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech A team led by Feng Zhao, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Michigan Technological University, recently ...
New approach for potential treatment of liver cancer patients with Hep B virus infection
New therapeutic approach points to potential treatment of liver cancer patients with Hepatitis B virus infectionCredit: Gastroenterology SINGAPORE, 27 March ...
$6.1 million in grants pave way for TGen-led studies of deadly lung diseases
50,000 US patients annually diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March 27, 2019 -- The Translational Genomics Research ...
Early valve replacement versus watchful waiting in patients with severe aortic stenosis
Research shows greater survival benefit for patients treated within a year of diagnosisCredit: Elsevier, Annals of Thoracic Surgery Chicago, March ...
Harvard researchers’ immune-silent stem cell technology licensed to Sana Biotechnology
Developed through Harvard's Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, innovations could lead to novel cell therapies to treat diseaseCredit: Mary Todd Bergman, Harvard ...
Immune-repelling protein prolongs function, survival of human stem-cell-derived beta cells
Approach developed by Mass. General team may get around problems impeding the use of islet-cell transplants Encapsulating human stem-cell-derived beta ...
Squishing blood stem cells could facilitate harvest for transplants
Knockout of Ptpn21 alters deformabilityCredit: From Ni et al Cell Stem Cell (2019) Scientists at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory ...
New material will allow abandoning bone marrow transplantation
Credit: © Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" developed nanomaterial, which will be ...
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