For those with kidney failure, a transplant is often the greatest promise of a healthier, longer life. Yet thousands wait ...

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

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...

In “Replaceable You,” Mary Roach describes mind-boggling efforts to replace human body parts—and why it’s proven to be so ...

Creatinine is a byproduct of muscle metabolism and under normal circumstances, the kidney's filter creatinine from the blood ...

Kidney stones can be painful and hard to treat, but scientists believe they have hit on a new treatment that may beat them ...

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

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

When the human body gets hurt, most tissues heal—skin closes over a wound, bone heals itself. But not all organs heal that ...

The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes ...

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