Glycans are important complex carbohydrates found on cell surfaces that serve crucial roles in cell-to-cell communication, structure, and protection. They are attached to many proteins in the body, ...

Glycans are important complex carbohydrates found on cell surfaces that serve crucial roles in cell-to-cell communication, structure, and protection.

Chronic kidney disease is a gradual, irreversible loss of kidney function caused by diabetes, hypertension, or ageing. It ...

A loss of salt and body fluid can stimulate kidney regeneration and repair in mice, according to a NIH-funded study led by USC Stem Cell scientist Janos Peti-Peterdi and published in The Journal of ...

The kidneys produce certain hormones in our bodies that help control blood pressure and make red blood cells. However, many ...

How can long-term space flight influence astronaut health, and specifically their organs? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a large team of ...

Your kidneys are the small but mighty organs that cleanse your body of waste and keep you alive. They weigh in at only about 10 to 12 ounces each, but each day they filter about 150 quarts of blood, ...

Researchers at the King's College London Dental Institute have shown that people with a certain kind of kidney disease have characteristic facial features that may reflect the genetic mutation they ...