In a study published this week in JCI Insight, Dr. Ankit Bharat, director of the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute, laid out how abnormal cells emerge and work to cause lung damage and ...

Panels designed to identify acute cellular rejection, antibody-mediated rejection without ...

Robert Montgomery prepares a pig kidney for transplant into a brain-dead man in New York in July 2023. Scientists have successfully stopped a pig kidney from being rejected by its human recipient. The ...

A novel approach to organ transplantation allowed patients to wean off anti-rejection drugs after two years, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial presented Monday. The drugs, called ...

Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is one of the most common causes of kidney transplant failure. To date, however, no treatment has proven effective in combating this complication in the long term. As ...

About one third of lung transplant recipients have a genetic variant that makes them more likely to develop chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), the primary cause of mortality after ...

Over the weekend, CBS News reported that author and two-time heart transplant recipient Amy Silverstein had died—along with her healthy heart. This inevitability, announced by Silverstein herself in a ...

Transplantation of organs or tissues between genetically nonidentical individuals of the same species (and different species) is plagued by rejection and its associated problems. "Foreignness" is ...

If an organ in your body (such as the heart, kidneys, or liver) is not working well enough because of an illness or injury, you may need an organ transplant. An organ transplant involves surgically ...

Scientists have successfully stopped a pig kidney from being rejected by its human recipient. The organ survived for 61 days in the recipient, a 57-year-old brain-dead man in the United States, the ...