Transplantation

Credit: Courtesy of Darren Bidulka (Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, Toronto)--Results of a world-first Canadian pilot study on patients treated with gene therapy for Fabry disease show that the treatment is working and safe.…

University of Cincinnati transplant researcher says trial confirms a regimen used at UC for yearsCredit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati Long-term use of a medication used to treat kidney transplant patients may not be…

Credit: POSTECH Diabetes is on the rise worldwide. It is a permanent condition that requires care over a life time. To help manage it, an artificial pancreas system, which automatically measures blood sugar levels to infuse the…

A potential new treatment to protect immunosuppressed patients from human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) has been discovered by scientists at the University of Cambridge. Their study shows that certain epigenetic inhibitors expose and help to…

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that Polycomb complexes, groups of proteins that maintain gene expression patterns, are essential for proper skin development, according to a paper published in Genes & Development on February…

Cancer researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center discovered that a single strain of Bacteroides fragilis significantly reduced graft-versus-host disease by protecting gut integrityCredit: MUSC Hollings Cancer Center MUSC Hollings…

Next stop: clinical hair regenerationCredit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have discovered a recipe for continuous cyclical regeneration of cultured hair follicles from hair…

UVA researcher imagines super rubber, and has a strategy to make it What's 1,000 times softer than a rubber tire, but holds its shape and is as tough as metal? The answer is nothing -- yet. But a soft material with that combination of…

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Feb. 4, 2021 - Researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) demonstrate that changing the gut microbiome can transform patients with advanced melanoma who never responded to…

For patients with cancers that do not respond to immunotherapy drugs, adjusting the composition of microorganisms in the intestines--known as the gut microbiome--through the use of stool, or fecal, transplants may help some of these…

According to a study published in Frontiers in Immunology, the reason is their genetic heterogeneity and lack of proportional representation in the Brazilian bone marrow bankCredit: Diogo Meyer A paper by a multidisciplinary team of…

Pioneering research into how our bodies manufacture the cells that make blood has moved us closer to regrowing tissues and organs. The findings also may let doctors grow the cells for transplantation into people to battle cancer, blood…

$5M financing round led by Kizoo Technology Capital Fresh capital to be employed for productization, to prepare a clinical trial in organ transplantation and to expand cellvie's pipeline into rejuvenation therapies Promising initial…

SINGAPORE, 19 January 2021 - Duke-NUS Medical School researchers, together with collaborators in Singapore, have designed armoured immune cells that can attack recurring cancer in liver transplant patients, while temporarily evading…

Credit: Batalov et al., PNAS, 2021 Imagine going to a surgeon to have a diseased or injured organ switched out for a fully functional, laboratory-grown replacement. This remains science fiction and not reality because researchers today…

Findings illuminate biology behind promising hypoimmune platform for regenerative medicin UC San Francisco scientists have discovered a new way to control the immune system's "natural killer" (NK) cells, a finding with implications for…

Study finds that one arm of the immune system becomes tolerant to a fetus while the other becomes sensitized, providing new insights on how prior pregnancies can create challenges for transplant recipients A research study at the…

When a person has an infection, the body activates immune responses to fight it. IFNγ is an inflammatory molecule produced by the immune system that helps fight infections. However, long-term exposure to IFNγ has undesirable consequences -…

A paint-on, transparent bandage reads the amount of oxygen reaching transplanted tissue, a crucial measure of the tissue's viability. The new technology greatly improves on existing methods of detecting oxygen supply. BOSTON -- In the…

Because of the program, the Medical University of South Carolina division of transplant surgery has been able to maintain access to critical surgery at the same level as before onset of the virusCredit: American College of Surgeons…