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Clues revealed to cause of deadly kidney disease in newborns

Babies born with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) often develop kidney failure because they have very large kidneys filled with tiny cysts. Even with excellent medical care, about 30% die shortly after ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kidney damage and high blood pressure

The kidney performs several vital functions. It filters blood, removes waste products from the body, balances the body's fluids, and releases hormones that regulate blood pressure. A number of diseases and conditions can ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UA engineers win patent for protein-based electronic circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona engineers have patented a process that could lead to the next big leap in microelectronics, completely changing the way microchips are made. Pierre Deymier, a professor ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

System for eliminating salt may point to new antihypertensives

A study of the body system that deals with Americans' love affair with salt may yield more insight into why so many end up hypertensive and how to better treat them.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes as transistor material

Swiss researchers have built a transistor whose crucial element is a carbon nano-tube, suspended between two contacts, with outstanding electronic properties. A novel fabrication approach allowed the scientists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Anti-inflammatory drugs can help block hypertension-related kidney damage

Anti-inflammatory drugs appear to help block the rapid kidney destruction that can occur with hypertension, Medical College of Georgia researchers report.

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers gain detailed insight into failing heart cells using new nanotechnique

Researchers have been able to see how heart failure affects the surface of an individual heart muscle cell in minute detail, using a new nanoscale scanning technique developed at Imperial College London. The findings may ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protein identified that helps heart muscle contract

UCSF researchers have discovered that a protein called B1N1 is necessary for the heart to contract. The findings, published in the Feb. 16 issue of the open access journal PLoS Biology, shed light not only on what makes ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find reproductive germ cells survive and thrive in transplants, even among species

Reproductive researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have succeeded in isolating and transplanting pure populations of the immature cells that enable male ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New method for magnetic manipulation of cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic technology could help address a major problem that bioengineers face as they try to create new tissue: getting human cells to not only form structures, but to stimulate the growth ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3


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