Researchers in Boston, Massachusetts have published the first description of successful transplantation of a bioengineered kidney into rats. The paper, published in this week’s Nature Medicine describes the process of decellularization by detergent perfusion and regeneration with epithelial and endothelial cells. The resulting kidney was capable of filtering and producing urine both in vitro and […]
Peter Morris gave the following presentation at this year’s British Transplant Society Congress after polling members as to what trials they would like to see performed in the field of transplantation in the near future. There are many interesting ideas to help guide future research projects. If you have any further ideas, please let us […]
There is an interesting editorial in this month’s Transplantation discussing the exclusion of elderly patients from clinical trials. Such practice clearly has an impact on the generalisability of the results of trials to an increasingly ageing transplant population (the proportion of US kidney transplant recipients aged 65 or over doubled from 7% to 16% between […]