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The kidney is one of the human vital organs which is responsible for filtering the blood and getting rid of the waste products. Each kidney is about 4 or 5 inches long, roughly the size of a large fist. The kidneys' job is to filter your blood.
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AUG 28, 2020
Microbiology
Several schools and even buildings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified Legionella ba
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 25, 2020
Cannabis Sciences
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Epidiolex, a cannabidiol (CBD) oral solution, to treat seizures linked
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 21, 2020
Microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus is a common bacterium. If it stays on the skin it's harmless, but if it gets into the bloodstream,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 20, 2020
Cardiology
Cells have many specialized organelles, including a kind of signaling hub called a cilium, which sticks out of the surfa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 20, 2020
Health & Medicine
Microplastics make headlines frequently these days, and a discovery from Arizona State University (ASU) researchers is b
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
AUG 19, 2020
Cancer
New research published in the journal European Urology reports that greater gut microbial diversity in patients wit
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 16, 2020
Cancer
Scientists mapping cancer statistics have developed a new mathematical model to track health inequalities relating to th
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 11, 2020
Cardiology
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a common cardiovascular condition with plenty of treatment options and preventi
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
AUG 10, 2020
Cardiology
When a blood clot forms in an artery that supplies the brain with oxygen, obstructing it, a stroke can occur. Strokes ca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 10, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
We have known for decades that lead harms the body. This work can help explain how that happens.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 01, 2020
Cardiology
Type 2 diabetes affects millions around the world. By itself, it prevents your body from properly using sugars fro
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
JUL 21, 2020
Cardiology
When it comes to your cardiovascular health, it is important to look at more than just your heart. The cardiovascular sy
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
JUL 21, 2020
Immunology
More than half of all women will suffer from a urinary tract infection, or UTI, during their lifetimes. Women are consid
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JUL 18, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Breaking news reports that agrochemicals that pollute our waters also increase the transmission of the parasite that cau
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 15, 2020
Cancer
The art of traditional eastern medicine dates back thousands of years. It uses many unproven remedies, and many consider
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
JUL 13, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers tagged proteins in the basement membranes of worms to visulize them. Image credit: Dan Keeley, UNC Chapel Hi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 09, 2020
Cancer
A study published in Developmental Cell highlights the discovery that a fatty acid called dihomogamma-linolenic acid (DG
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 08, 2020
Cannabis Sciences
It’s estimated that up to a fifth of dogs above the age of one are afflicted with osteoarthritis, which causes inf
...
Written By:
Angela Dowden
JUL 05, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
The pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 enters the body through the respiratory system to cause the illness COVID-19. But we know
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2020
Cancer
There is hope that ACE inhibitors and ARBs, medications that are commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, may be hel
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 07, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Their cells of cephalopods like squid and octopuses can change in incredible ways to create living camouflage.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 04, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
German scientists have found a link between immune cell counts and the risk of developing severe, potentially lif
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
MAY 28, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
Urine contains an abundance of dissolved salts and minerals such as calcium and uric acid. These can form crystal
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes