Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other Americans have received hugely experimental transplants of gene-edited pig ...
To alter the status quo, Himmelfarb and other innovators have to not only try to replicate the biological functions of the human kidney but also take on corporate behemoths raking in millions ...
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich Germany Max Planck Institute for ...
Background: Human natural killer (NK) cells are key functional players in kidney transplant rejection. However, the respective contributions of the two functionally distinct human NK cell subsets ...
Similar results were found in human kidney graft biopsies, where microvascular injury in peritubular capillaries (angioregression or capillary drop-out, apoptotic endothelial cells and lamination of ...
Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital have used baby-rat cells to grow functioning artificial kidneys in a lab, marking an important step toward the ultimate goal of creating human organs ...