All Articles Tagged As: kidney
New Research describes a revolutionary technique for more clearly identifying the possibility of organ rejection in kidney transplants. The technique, which uses a microarray or "Gene Chip," a process of examining DNA sequences, defines how major causes of organ disease leading to rejection share similar disturbances in gene behavior. The study is the first to show how gene sets, as opposed to single genes, can be used for diagnosis of rejection in individual patients, and offers new insight into the mechanisms of these gene changes.
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 | Fish oil, it's been touted as an answer to Alzheimers, arthritis and even weight-loss but now a Queensland University of Technology researcher will test its health benefits in people with chronic kidney disease. ...> Full Article |
Approximately one-third of the patients on the national waiting list for kidney transplants have only a small chance of receiving a new organ, no matter how long they are on the list. Due to prior transplants, pregnancies or blood transfusions, these patients have developed antibodies that make it very difficult to match them with donor organs.
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Dr. Samuel Strober with the Stanford Medical Center Program in Multi-Organ Transplantation has begun a clinical trial
that intends to eliminate the need for immunosuppressive drugs after transplantation of a kidney. This treatment, if
successful, could dramatically increase the odds of survival for kidney transplant recipients.
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Surgical Professor David Sachs has made long strides in xenotransplantation, the process of
transplanting an organ from one species to another. Currently, Professor Sachs is testing
pig kidneys in primates, with hopes of clinical trials on humans within 5 years.
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Researchers in Japan claim they've cloned a human kidney by harvesting human stem cells taken from adult bone marrow into rat embryos.
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Researchers with Tissue Engineering at Children's Hospital Bostonwho transplanted cloned cattle cells
that formed working mini-kidneys say their experiment shows the potential of cloning replacement tissues and organs.
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