{"id":137938,"date":"2025-10-08T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137938"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:00:07","slug":"kidney-transplant-after-blood-type-conversion-may-improve-access-to-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137938","title":{"rendered":"Kidney transplant after blood type conversion may improve access to organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists from China and Canada have successfully transplanted a human kidney after the organ\u2019s blood type was converted from type A to the universal type O using special enzymes for the first time.<br \/>\nAfter being transplanted into a recipient who had been diagnosed with brain death, the enzyme-converted kidney functioned for at least two days without signs of hyperacute rejection.<br \/>\nThis conversion could overcome the barrier of having to match donor and recipient blood type for transplants, which&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3328146\/kidney-transplant-after-blood-type-conversion-may-improve-access-organs-cut-wait-list?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists from China and Canada have successfully transplanted a human kidney after the organ\u2019s blood type was converted from type A to the universal&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137938"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}