Wenzhou Medical University researchers have reimagined the spleen as a viable site for islet transplantation, enabling ...

A California cancer survivor was the recipient of the world's first in-human bladder transplant this month thanks to a pair ...

In an eight-hour procedure at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, surgeons from UCLA Health and Keck Medicine of USC performed ...

The pancreatic islet is the only human tissue that produces ... The researchers hope the novel transplantation approach will be available to people with type 1 diabetes in the next few years.

Scientists discovered the spleen can support insulin-producing cells from the pancreas. This may change diabetes care.

There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was ...

Bladder transplants have not been done previously, in part because of the complicated vascular structure of the pelvic area.

The insulin cells are killed by an autoimmune process in type 1 diabetes ... Indeed, derived from human umbilical vein cells, R-VECs are relatively durable in transplant conditions—unlike ...

The story of transplants has always been one of altruism. After all, organs can be neither sold nor purchased. They can only ...

The researchers say these are potentially the first human cases of insulin ... Dr. Daniel Gilada, a Type 1 diabetic who underwent an islet cell transplant, is pictured with his wife and children.

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

Surgeons in Southern California have performed the first human bladder transplant, introducing a new, potentially ...