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Hello wearable kidney, goodbye dialysis machine
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Researchers are developing a Wearable Artificial Kidney for dialysis patients, reports an upcoming paper in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). "Our vision of a technological breakthrough ...
Help your kidneys: Pass on salt and diet soda
Nov 01, 2009 |
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Individuals who consume a diet high in sodium or artificially sweetened drinks are more likely to experience a decline in kidney function, according to two papers being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's annual ...
Scientists identify cell changes leading to impaired 'artificial kidney' function
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Molecular targets identified by a Spanish research team may hold the key to freedom for some sufferers of kidney disease. A new study published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), dmm.biologists.org, reveals the cellular ...
Researchers design model for automated, wearable artificial kidney
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Two researchers from UCLA and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System have developed a design for an automated, wearable artificial kidney, or AWAK, that avoids the complications patients often suffer with ...
Blood vessels made from patients' cells
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.
Standard test for blood sugar control not accurate in diabetic dialysis patients
Feb 20, 2008 |
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The standard test for measuring blood sugar control in people with diabetes is not accurate in those on kidney hemodialysis, according to new research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
3D printing for new tissues and organs
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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A more effective way to build plastic scaffolds on which new tissues and even whole organs might be grown in the laboratory is being developed by an international collaboration between teams in Portugal and the UK.
Depressed dialysis patients more likely to be hospitalized or die
Sep 12, 2008 |
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Dialysis patients diagnosed with depression are nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized or die within a year than those who are not depressed, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found.
New cataract gene discovered
Feb 14, 2008 |
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The international team of researchers was able to identify the location and defect in the coding region of the gene through analysis of genetic material (DNA) from members of a large Swiss family, the majority ...
Nano World: Nano for artificial kidneys
Sep 08, 2005 |
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Nanotechnological filters could lead to wearable or implantable artificial kidneys, experts told UPI's Nano World. Animal studies for artificial-kidney prototypes should begin one or two years from now, and clinical trials ...
The world's most common operation
Nov 09, 2009 |
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As many as 10 million people around the world suffer from cataracts. Thomas Kohnen of the Goethe University in Frankfurt and his coauthors discuss cataract surgery with the implantation of an artificial lens in the current ...
In search of machines that play at being human
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Researchers at Carlos III University (Spain) have taken part in an international contest whose objective is to improve artificial intelligence utilized in virtual worlds. The challenge for the participants ...
Nano World: Blood-compatible nanomaterial
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 16, 2006 |
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Artificial kidneys and other medical devices could soon employ carbon nanotubes and other structures only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide made highly blood compatible via anticoagulants, experts told UPI's Nano World.
UIC Researchers Probe Computer 'Commonsense Knowledge'
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenge a simple pocket calculator at arithmetic and you may be left in the dust. But even the most sophisticated computer cannot match the reasoning of a youngster who looks outside, sees a fresh snowfall, ...
New artificial enzyme safer for nature
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Perilous and polluting industrial processes can be made safer with enzymes. But only a short range of enzymes have been available for the chemical industry.
