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It was only five years ago that Coby Jacobus was diagnosed with renal failure and desperately needed a kidney, which he received from his father. Basically, he got a second chance.

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Percentage of people in favor of donation keeps rising, experts say Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Organ Donation

Kidneys, livers, whatever, made to order in a lab. With Organovo's 3-D printing technology, it's possible.Right now in the United States, nearly 120,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant. Among them, 95,000 are waiting for a kidney,...

A kidney "grown" in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.

A new discovery about the malaria-related parasite Toxoplasma gondii -- which can threaten babies, AIDS patients, the elderly and others with weakened immune systems -- may help solve the mystery of how this single-celled parasite establishes...

Using the same strategy that a common virus employs to evade the human immune system, researchers have modified adult stem cells to increase their survival -- with the goal of giving the cells time to exert their natural healing abilities.