After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

Scientists have taken a decisive step toward ending one of transplant medicine’s most stubborn bottlenecks: the need to match donor organs to a recipient’s blood type. By chemically reengineering a ...

Transplanting organs is tricky business. If you need an organ, you can't receive a donation from just anybody; it follows the same rules as blood type compatibility. For example, someone with blood ...

For millions on the organ transplant waitlist, blood type can determine life or death.

The American Red Cross is urging people to donate blood amid a severe blood shortage. The recent winter storms have ...

Lifeline Blood Services has issued a critical and immediate appeal for Type O negative blood donors as severe weather and ...

(NewsNation) — Widespread use of life-saving artificial blood could be a reality by the end of the decade, according to published reports. Clinical trials are underway at Nara Medical University in ...