The protein known as polycystin 2 is present in every cell in the body, but until now scientists knew little about its purpose. Yale researchers have discovered that it protects against cell death, making it a potential target ...
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Scientists from the University of Sheffield are part of an international collaboration to develop a new class of drugs to treat a common genetic kidney disease which is a major cause of kidney failure.
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By creating and manipulating mini-kidney organoids that contain a realistic micro-anatomy, UW Medicine researchers can now track the early stages of polycystic kidney disease. The organoids are grown from human stem cells.
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers from France, Germany and Belgium has found that giving a peptide found in green mamba venom to mice with a kidney disease led to reduced symptoms. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
A new gene behind a rare form of inherited childhood kidney disease has been identified by a global research team.
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Mini-kidney organoids have now been grown in a laboratory by using genome editing to re-create human kidney disease in petri dishes.
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A single gene is central in the development of several forms of polycystic kidney and liver disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the June 19 issue of Nature Genetics.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is extremely prevalent among adults, affecting over 800 million individuals worldwide. Many of these patients eventually require therapy to supplement or replace kidney functions, such as dialysis ...
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Kidney doctors and clinical scientists at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are using artificial intelligence (AI) to better predict when a person's kidneys might fail.
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March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the difference between two kidney disorders—kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease.
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