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…
A Donor Kidney Is Converted to a Universal Blood Type and Successfully Transplanted
For the first time, scientists convert a donor kidney to a universal blood type, a development that could expand kidney transplantation to thousands more patients…