Researchers have converted a blood type A kidney to a blood type O kidney and successfully transplanted it, they reported in ...

In a step toward increasing access to donor organs, scientists have converted a blood-type-A kidney to blood type O and then transplanted it into a brain-dead person. The kidney, which had essentially ...

The existence of different blood types is one of the most frustrating realities of human biology, offering very little in the ...

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 ...

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 access to donor organs, specialists say, ...

Transforming organs from any blood type into the universal donor Type O could help patients receive transplants faster.

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

This area of research is still in the early stages, but it could someday help reduce wait times for patients needing kidney ...

The CBC says its inventory recently dropped to just a two-day supply of O-positive and even less of O-negative.

The team used human stem cells to create embryo-like structures dubbed “hematoids” that mirror some features of early human ...

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