The researchers found virulent E. coli bacteria blocked a pathway that would normally protect the gut from infection. These infections are particularly serious in young children and can result in diarrhoea and other complications ...
Sep 11, 2013
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University of Queensland researchers have reprogrammed adult kidney cells to act as stem cells to repair damaged kidneys.
Jun 14, 2013
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Researchers have found that conditions in the womb can affect kidney development and have serious health implications for the child not only immediately after birth, but decades later.
May 30, 2013
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A recently described master regulator protein may explain the development of aberrant cell growth in the pancreas spurred by inflammation
Feb 12, 2013
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New research has found there are several different ways that kidney tumours can achieve the same result – namely, grow.
Nov 21, 2012
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Within every human kidney, millions of filtration units known as nephrons are hard at work clearing metabolic waste products from the blood. Given the dirty work they perform, one might expect that the cells composing the ...
Nov 7, 2012
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Researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute have discovered that developing countries have faster growing rates of use of home-based dialysis (called peritoneal dialysis) for kidney failure than the developed world. Despite ...
Apr 26, 2012
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BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, developed single-cell genome sequencing technology and published two research papers for cancer single-cell sequencing in the research journal Cell. In the papers, which were ...
Mar 2, 2012
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Home-based dialysis treatments are on the rise in both the developing and developed worlds, but developed countries appear to be turning to them less often, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal ...
Feb 2, 2012
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that an element commonly found in nature might provide a way to neutralize the potentially lethal effects of a compound known as Shiga toxin. New results published in ...
Jan 19, 2012
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