A man diagnosed with brain death received a kidney that was modified to be type O, which is compatible with all blood types ...

More than 92,000 patients in the United States are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, and according to the Health ...

Scientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ into a person. The procedure — the ...

In a quiet hospital room in Chongqing, China, a 68-year-old brain-dead man became part of a historic medical experiment—one ...

Organ transplants can be life-saving, but the need to match blood types means many people are left on long waiting lists while organs go to waste. Scientists at Cambridge have now demonstrated a ...

In an extraordinary breakthrough, The Guardian reports that a team of UK doctors have been able to successfully change the blood type of three donor kidneys from the rarer blood type B to “universal ...

Scientists move one step closer to "universal" donor organs with a successful kidney transplant in a brain-dead patient.

A blood donation can mean the difference between life and death if you need a transfusion, and every year 4.5 million people do, according to the American Red Cross. One type of blood donation can be ...

A team of researchers claims to have found a common bacteria that can easily manipulate the enzymes present in blood supplies to turn it into a universal donor type. Such a process, if scaled up for ...

Attempts to create universal donor blood have taken a "decisive step forward" after scientists discovered ways to significantly reduce the risk of a negative reaction. A "cocktail" of bacterial ...