{"id":230757,"date":"2026-02-07T01:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/breakthrough-scientists-created-a-universal-kidney-to-match-any-blood-type"},"modified":"2026-02-07T01:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:03:57","slug":"breakthrough-scientists-created-a-universal-kidney-to-match-any-blood-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/breakthrough-scientists-created-a-universal-kidney-to-match-any-blood-type","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough: Scientists Created a \u2018Universal\u2019 Kidney To Match Any Blood Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-scientists-created-a-universal-kidney-to-match-any-blood-type.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/breakthrough-test-predicts-whether-organ-transplants-will-be-rejected\">kidney transplants<\/a>: being able to transfer kidneys from donors with different blood types than the recipients, which could significantly speed up waiting times and save lives.<\/p>\n<p>In research published last year, a team from institutions across Canada and China reported creating a \u2018universal\u2019 kidney that, in theory, can be accepted <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kidney_transplantation\">by any patient<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their test organ survived and functioned for several days in the body of a brain-dead recipient, whose family consented to the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer kidneys from donors with different blood types than the recipients, which could significantly speed up waiting times and save lives. In research published last year, a team from institutions across Canada and China reported [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}