March 31, 2021

‘It’s going to save lives’: New type of heart transplant performed in Nebraska | Live Well

Don Sheard had been getting along OK with the battery-powered device that for three years had been helping his heart pump blood through his body. The former drywall finisher from Elmwood,

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March 24, 2021

Bio-Techne Announces ExoTRU Kidney Transplant Rejection Assay Data Publication

MINNEAPOLIS, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced that Exosome Diagnostics, a Bio-Techne brand, has published preliminary data on its kidney transplant rejection test, ExoTRU™ (Exosome Transplant

March 24, 2021

Novel urine test developed to diagnose human kidney transplant rejection — ScienceDaily

Patients can spend up to six years waiting for a kidney transplant. Even when they do receive a transplant, up to 20 percent of patients will experience rejection. Transplant rejection

March 8, 2021

Scientists on brink of medical breakthrough for thousands in need of kidney transplant: growing artificial kidney (Video Post)

"The problem is right now we don't have enough transplant kidneys available." Researchers are working on what could be a medical miracle for thousands waiting for kidney transplants. What if

February 25, 2021

Researchers discover specific blood biomarker that predicts kidney transplant rejection

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered a blood biomarker that predicts kidney transplant rejection with a lead time of about eight months, which could give

January 28, 2021

VIDEO: Scientists on brink of medical breakthrough for thousands in need of kidney transplant: growing artificial kidney

It sounds like it's out of a Sci-Fi novel, but a team of scientists are researching a way to synthesize a kidney with sufficient function to keep a person off

January 25, 2021

‘It’s going to save lives’: New type of heart transplant performed in Nebraska | Health and Fitness

Traditionally, hearts are recovered after donors’ brains cease to function, said Dr. Marian Urban, the cardiothoracic surgeon at the medical center who led the effort to offer the new procedure.

January 21, 2021

Up close and personal with the gift of life as LSC shows a kidney transplant virtually

The Liberty Science Center will give next-gen healthcare heroes an up-close virtual experience of what it’s like to be a doctor performing a major surgery. The free virtual, interactive class,

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January 16, 2021

Diabetes Drug Reduces Acute GVHD After Stem Cell Transplant

Acute graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) is a potentially deadly complication after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), occurring in 30% to 50% of patients within 100 days of transplant. A new study

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January 6, 2021

At UPMC, Android-enabled telehealth keeps child transplant patients safe

The UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was the nation's first center to perform organ transplantation in children. It has performed more solid organ transplants in children than any U.S. center. With

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