There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was considered experimental only a half-century ago.

Achieving tolerance to transplanted organs should solve both problems ... In virtually all animal models, T cells are required for transplant rejection (Fig. 1), and so the focus of tolerance ...

Researchers identified a natural 'brake' within the innate immune system: the inhibitory receptor Siglec-E (SigE) and its human counterparts, Siglec-7 and Siglec-9. This receptor helps prevent ...

If you're living with a transplant, "rejection" is a word that can send shivers up your spine. But organ rejection is often not as bad as it sounds. As scary as the word may be, it doesn't ...

The result was PIPSA, which stands for Predicting Indirect Peptides with Solvent Accessibility. PIPSA is a model that ...

Discovery of innate immune receptor "brake" Siglec-E offers a novel therapeutic target to prevent organ transplant rejection ...

Japanese researchers said they have produced three piglets cloned from a pig that was genetically modified to prevent rejection of its organs in transplants to humans. PorMedTec Co., a Kawasaki ...

Oncocyte Corp. has made significant progress in preparing for its clinical trial aimed at obtaining regulatory approval for an organ transplant rejection monitoring test kit. The company has ...

Organ transplantation is a critical field in healthcare where early detection of rejection and effective post-operative monitoring often determines the difference between life and death.