These innovative membranes, called nanoporous atomically thin membranes (NATMs), leverage a protein-enabled sealing mechanism to address a key challenge in dialysis technology, which is ...

Becca Whittle tells PEOPLE she was having dinner with her family when she noticed that her daughter, Harper, wasn’t feeling well and was showing flu-like symptoms.

Patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) often develop protein energy malnutrition. Amino-acid-containing dialysate can compensate for low protein intake and protein losses in such patients ...

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The discovery sheds light on how certain bacteria -- including strains that cause food poisoning and anthrax -- form spores for survival. Scientists have discovered a protein that enables bacteria ...

The simplest way to decipher the code would be to start with an mRNA molecule of known sequence, use it to direct the synthesis of a protein, and then determine the amino acid sequence of the ...

kidney patients must monitor their diet carefully in between dialysis sessions. They need to avoid eating foods with a high salt content or a high protein content as excess amino acids are broken ...