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For those with kidney failure, a transplant is often the greatest promise of a healthier, longer life. Yet thousands wait years for a match that never comes. Incompatibility of blood type is one of ...

Scientists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have discovered a gut bacterium that may transform blood transfusions across the globe. The bacterium, Akkermansia muciniphila, found naturally ...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada have found a way to convert Type A blood in to a universally accepted form, potentially doubling the amount of universally accepted blood ...

More than 92,000 patients in the United States are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, and according to the Health Resources & Services Administration, 13 people die each day while waiting ...

Every two seconds, an American needs a blood transfusion. But blood transfusions aren’t as simple as taking one person’s blood and giving it to another. There are four different types, but type O ...

For the first time, doctors changed the blood type of human lungs — an experimental step toward creating universal organs that could be transplanted into any patient, regardless of blood type. An ...