Researchers at Kumamoto University have demonstrated that iron supplementation can significantly alleviate muscle pathology and functional decline in a mouse model of facioscapulohumeral muscular ...

Researchers received a federal grant to see if diabetes drug empagliflozin is safe and effective for SCD kidney damage.

Mickey Mouse endures because he fits our evolved need for safe faces, shared stories, and imagination, helping us regulate ...

Maze Therapeutics uses its Compass genetics platform to advance kidney and obesity drugs, with MZE829 Phase 2 data due in ...

Using a blend of computer modeling, structural and cell-based studies, scientists at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute have ...

Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials. By Rylee Kirk A man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from another ...

The latest update is out from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co ( (JP:4519)). Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced its decision to merge with Renalys Pharma, Inc., which it will acquire as a wholly-owned ...

Serious damage to short-term kidney function—known as acute kidney injury, or AKI—can be fatal and also increase the risk of irreversible chronic kidney disease. It can be triggered by stressors ...

Computers have been around since the end of World War II. In order to use most of them, you had to learn fancy computer languages or use stacks of cards with holes punched into them or reel after reel ...

“You’re on a chemotherapeutic and your oncologist may say that your dosage is X, while a nephrologist is telling you that the proximal tubules in your kidneys can’t handle it. You’re harming them.” ...

Tim Andrews, 67, lived with a genetically modified organ longer than any other recipient. By Emily Anthes Surgeons removed a genetically modified pig kidney from a 67-year-old man last week, nearly ...