Transplantation

EASL and ESCMID have issued a Position Paper, providing recommendations for clinicians caring for patients with liver diseases during the current pandemicCredit: JHEP Reports 2 April 2020 - Geneva, Switzerland: Currently, there are…

Credit: Jinah Jang (POSTECH) The heart is the driving force of circulating blood in the body and pumps blood to the entire body by repeating contraction and relaxation of the heart muscles continuously. Human stem cells are used…

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and St Erik Eye Hospital in Sweden have discovered a way to refine the production of retinal cells from embryonic stem cells for treating blindness in the elderly. Using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing,…

Credit: © City University of Hong Kong / Science Advances Human stem cells have been regarded as one of the promising cell sources for cardiac regeneration therapy. But their clinical use is hampered due to the poor…

A new study from the University of Birmingham has shown that Faecal Microbiota Transplants (FMT) are highly successful in treating patients with Clostridioides difficile (C.diff) infection. Published in EClinical Medicine, results from…

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, March 13, 2020 - Inspired by a tactic cancer cells use to evade the immune system, University of Pittsburgh researchers have engineered tiny particles that can trick the body into accepting transplanted tissue as…

$5 million industry-academic collaboration, led by Penn Medicine, aims to increase awareness of the disease progression and advance research efforts to preserve kidney function PHILADELPHIA -- Diabetic kidney disease (DKD), which affects…

Derfner Foundation awards $250,000 to Kessler Foundation to expand regenerative rehabilitation research to improve the lives of people with disabling injuriesCredit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. March 9, 2020 - A major award by…

Credit: RJH Miller and O Manabe et al. Departments of Imaging and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial flow reserve (MFR) have been identified as accurate indicators for…

In the past two decades, death rates after liver transplantation have dropped by more than half in the UK, according to a recent analysis of almost 10,000 liver transplant recipients published in BJS (British Journal of Surgery). During…

Study shows that patients older than 75 years who received a kidney from a similarly aged donor remain dialysis-free for the rest of their lives People in the industrialized counties are getting older and are very often in good health as a…

Credit: ©Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute Minneapolis, Minn. - February 24, 2020 - A new website developed by researchers at Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) is making it…

Many of the microbes that live in your gut are also found in your stool, and fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) are being studied to determine whether they can improve health outcomes in patients with various diseases such as ulcerative…

Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND (Feb. 11, 2020)--Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), Cleveland Clinic and Lifebanc (a Northeast Ohio…

Rutgers researchers are developing materials to help grow human tissuesCredit: Madison Madison Godesky Rutgers biomedical engineers have developed a "bio-ink" for 3D printed materials that could serve as scaffolds for growing human…

A recent analysis published in the American Journal of Transplantation estimates that for the average US patient who has undergone kidney transplantation, failure of the transplanted organ (graft failure) will impose additional medical…

Findings published in NEJM suggests that high levels of suPAR be a risk factor for acute kidney injuryCredit: Rush Production Group Up to 10% of patients who are hospitalized or undergo surgery will experience acute kidney injury…

Researchers develop a skin printer that works like a paint roller, depositing bio ink that speeds up wound healingCredit: Daria Perevezentsev / U of T Engineering A new handheld 3D printer can deposit sheets of skin to cover…

Rice University bioengineers 3D-print implants to seed multiple layers of tissueCredit: Rice Biomaterials Lab HOUSTON - (Feb. 4, 2020) - Who ever said bioengineers can't get their groove on? The Rice University team…

Credit: Unsplash Presidential Grant was awarded to the young scientist from the School of Natural Sciences of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) to support the development of photopolymer silicone quickly curing in the process of 3D…