ProKidney Corp., a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in North Carolina, is developing a first-in-class cell therapy ...

For those with kidney failure, a transplant is often the greatest promise of a healthier, longer life. Yet thousands wait years for a match that never comes. Incompatibility of blood type is one of ...

Among modern cancer therapies, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are among the most successful treatment methods. These ...

Oct 15 (Reuters) - Researchers have converted a blood type A kidney to a blood type O kidney and successfully transplanted it, they reported in Nature Biomedical Engineering, opens new tab, an advance ...

Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play several major roles in the body's defense against cancers like renal cell carcinoma. Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play ...

Two new studies examining kidney disease at both the cellular and protein levels provided novel insights into disease biology, suggesting paths toward more precise and individualized therapies for ...

The first cancer patient Nick Salgia saw during his gap year working at an oncology research center had a rare and hyper-aggressive subtype of kidney cancer. Fortunately, a novel immunotherapy had ...

In the lab, it’s easier to grow simple balls of cells than complex asymmetrical structures with two distinct ends—like the one million filtering units, or nephrons, that make up a human kidney. But ...