The human kidney filters about a cup of blood every minute, removing waste, excess fluid, and toxins from it, while also ...

After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

For someone in need of an organ transplant, blood type—their own and their potential donor’s—means everything. A simple blood type discrepancy can mean remaining on an organ waitlist for months.

More than 100,000 men, women, and children are on the organ transplant waiting list in the United States, and most of them—nearly 90,000, as of March 2025—need a kidney. People wait years to receive a ...