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How We’re Getting the Immune System Over Its Beef With Pig Kidneys

The immune system is picky about xenotransplantation, especially when it comes to pig kidneys. For a long time, it’s had an almost 100% left-swipe rate. But researchers are starting to change that. They’ve figured out how to help the immune system look past the profile photo, read the bio, and, in some cases, swipe right on pig kidneys instead of rejecting them based gym pics and overt mewing…

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Feeling Overworked and Underappreciated? So Are Your Kidneys

Your kidneys are the ultimate overachievers. They clock in before you do, never take lunch, and somehow manage to filter about 150 quarts of blood a day without asking for a raise, a standing desk, or even a Starbucks gift card . If there were an Employee of the Month award inside your body, your kidneys would have a wall of plaques and a row of body branded stress balls…

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PKD Meet Your Kryptonite: A Tiny RNA Blasting Cysts from the Inside

For decades, polycystic kidney disease has been treated by managing the damage it causes, not the process that drives it. A new RNA based approach, tested in preclinical studies, aims to do something more precise: slow cyst growth at its source and help preserve kidney function for longer…

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Why So Many Donor Organs Are Lost and How CMS Plans to Fix the System

About 1 in 5 recovered organs are discarded, including many that could have been transplanted. CMS is proposing stricter oversight of the 56 U.S. organ procurement organizations to reduce wasted organs, tighten quality and safety standards, and make transplant performance more consistent nationwide…

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Protein After Kidney Transplant: The Modern Standard of Care

Protein advice online is built for the general public. Transplant life isn’t. Here’s how today’s post-transplant care approaches protein with stage-based targets, lab trends, and long-term strength in mind, not a one-size-fits-all number…

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Tegoprubart: A Next-Generation Anti-Rejection Therapy

Before 1994, kidney transplant failure within five years was common. Tacrolimus improved survival, but serious side effects and long-term organ damage became widely accepted as inevitable. Now, a new drug suggests transplant medicine may be entering its next phase without the same cost to the body…

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