Live vaccinations provided to children who previously received liver or kidney transplants were found to be safe and prompted an immune response to guard against several life-threatening conditions, according to a new study ...
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Fecal microbe transplants from healthy donors can treat patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infections. However, after tens of thousands transplants, little was known about which donor strains provide long-term ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Giving living donor liver transplant recipients an infusion of immune cells derived from their donor a week before transplantation is feasible, safe—and may lead to recipients being successfully weaned off immunosuppressant ...
Oct 11, 2023
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New research has identified a novel immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia. The study, published in Nature Cancer, describes a T-cell receptor that recognizes a mutation shared between a subgroup of patients with the disease. ...
Oct 2, 2023
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A biobank for all, in which a person from any background could find a bone marrow donor for a stem cell transplant, is a major goal for stem cell science. While repositories of cell lines that could be a match for most patients ...
Sep 28, 2023
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A severe form of fatty liver disease called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the leading cause of liver transplantation, but there are few treatment options and currently no medications. In a new study, Yale researchers ...
Sep 27, 2023
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Stanford Medicine researchers are hopeful that a proof-of-concept treatment in mice—blood stem cell transplants—may reduce signs of Alzheimer's disease.
Sep 22, 2023
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Northwestern University researchers have developed the first electronic device for continuously monitoring the health of transplanted organs in real time.
Sep 7, 2023
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A man-made antibody successfully prevented organ rejection when tested in primates that had undergone a kidney transplant, Duke Health researchers report.
Aug 30, 2023
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Researchers have successfully transplanted human microglia cells into mouse retina to create a model that could be used to test new treatments for incurable eye diseases.
Aug 22, 2023
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