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…
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…
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…
Inside UCLA’s Effort to End Required Lifelong Transplant Anti-Rejection Drugs
For decades, surviving a transplant has meant taking powerful anti-rejection drugs for life. A UCLA clinical trial using donor stem cells is testing whether retraining the immune system could finally change that tradeoff…