School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China ...

Studies have demonstrated a significant connection between acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). The purpose of this study was to identify biomarkers linked to the advancement of ...

IgA nephropathy is a clinically relevant form of glomerulonephritis worldwide, with rates of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) reaching 27% at 10 years 1,2. This disease has placed a significant burden ...

Red blood cells transport oxygen throughout your body, including to vital organs and tissues. They also help your body get rid of carbon dioxide. Too little or too many red blood cells may be ...

Nerve-Glial Antigen 2/Chondroitin Sulphate Proteoglycan 4 (NG2/CSPG4) is the largest membrane-intercalated cell surface component of the human proteome known to date. NG2/CSPG4 is endowed with the ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to prompt stem cells to form specific organs. It sets the stage for growing human organs from scratch – a long-time goal of ...

Background: Ephaptic coupling (EpC), a form of intercellular communication between excitable cells, has been proposed to occur at the perinexus, a sodium channel-rich nanodomain within the ...

An illustration of a pluripotent stem cell, which can be coaxed to develop into various kinds of tissue MedicalRF.com via Getty Images Last year, cell biologist Deng Hongkui and his team at Peking ...

This school year, many of the nation's adolescents and teens are sitting in class without the device that can sometimes feel like an added appendage: their smartphones. States such as Florida, Indiana ...

We’re born, we live, and we die but new studies exploring the phenomenon of dead cells taking on new functions after death, also known as the “third state,” is complicating that picture. In a research ...