When the UCLA team gave Cilengitide to mice with low type 5 collagen, it slowed down the scarring and kidney damage.

Towana Looney's body eventually rejected the animal organ, but previous recipients of such transplants did not survive past ...

Doctors were unable to find a compatible human donor, and the patient was ultimately cleared to receive a genetically ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

Pediatric patients with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection had a higher risk of adverse postacute kidney outcomes, such as new-onset ...

No longer considered functionless, the “rediscovered” rete ovarii may be crucial for understanding “unexplainable” infertility and ovarian disorders.

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...

Among living kidney donors with normal blood pressure, men were more likely than women to have worsening kidney function ...

Researchers have identified type 5 collagen as a key factor in kidney fibrosis, revealing its potential as a biomarker to predict chronic kidney disease progression. A repurposed anti-cancer drug, ...

More than 16,000 people in Arizona are living with kidney failure, according to the American Kidney Fund. The fastest, and ...

Here are seven potentially kidney-harming habits to avoid: ...