There are four stages of passing a kidney stone: The stone forms, leaves the kidney, reaches the bladder and causes pressure, and finally, exits the body. They're common, with about 10% of people in ...

Aqua Membranes, an Albuquerque-based startup which manufactures reverse osmosis membrane elements using large-scale printers, has secured an additional round of funding. Aqua Membranes ...

In a recent study, researchers have successfully developed a highly customizable kidney-on-a-chip system capable of recreating this barrier with exceptional precision. The system utilizes a ...

This study reveals an evolutionarily conserved function of Ehbp1 in orchestrating the orderly sorting of Wg/Wnt to the basolateral and apical cell membranes. Ehbp1 is essential for polarized ...

Wang, Po-Kai, et al., utilized the de novo polarization of MDCK cells cultured in Matrigel to assess the interdependence between polarity protein localization, centrosome positioning, and apical ...

(A) Single MDCK cells were cultured in Matrigel for 12 h. Immunostaining was performed with the following markers: apical membrane marker glycoprotein 135 (Gp135, green), centrosome marker γ-tubulin ...

The steadily growing number of patients with chronic kidney disease who will eventually ... Currently, new hemodialysis modalities and membranes are being used with the aim of increasing clearance ...