Medawar's work showed that the body's rejection of foreign tissue ... suppression with drugs was used for the first time in a human kidney transplant. Between 1954 and 1973, about 10,000 kideny ...

Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital have used baby-rat cells to grow functioning artificial kidneys in a lab, marking an important step toward the ultimate goal of creating human organs ...

Over 1,000 genes may serve as possible treatment targets for individuals with kidney disease, according to a new study, published in Science, from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the ...