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It was two years after his kidneys failed that Jeff Costley hit his emotional wall. He thought he’d adapted pretty well to the changes in his life — dialysis in …

Share on PinterestRapamycin may help extend lifespan but human trials a long way off. Image credit: Mark Abramson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images. Research is ongoing about potential strategies …

A leading surgeon behind a clinical trial of transplanting pig kidneys into living humans has said they could one day be superior to those from human donors. Dr Robert Montgomery, …

Seattle oncologist and surgeon William Hutchinson, ’31, founded the center, naming it in honor of his younger brother, Fred, a one-time UW student and major league baseball pitcher and manager …

CureusAdvances and Challenges in 3D Bioprinting for Organ Transplantation: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Clinical ApplicationsThe global shortage of organs continues to remain a significant challenge in modern medicine, …

There is a challenge to donation after circulatory death, however: time. While the donor is dying, the blood supply to organs throughout the body can vary and, in some cases, …

Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterHe’s one of the longest living bone marrow transplant survivorsSettings … Fred Hutch turns 50! Take a look back at half a century of leading-edge research and …

DaVita recently announced the launch of two large-scale clinical studies, MODEL and MEMOIRS, to examine the benefits of middle-molecule removal in dialysis for U.S. patients with kidney failure. This marks …

Surgeons have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain dead human recipient for the first time and found it functioned for nine days, researchers have revealed. …