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Acute kidney injury is being redefined as a collection of syndromes, each of which could be targeted by specific biomarkers.

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To Alex Hughes, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering within Penn Engineering and in Cell and Developmental Biology within Penn Medicine, the kidney is a work of art. "I find the development of the ...

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“Beyond that, there is the bilateral dimension. From day one we have been on the right side of history,” he said. “There have been positive developments, we are working on and there will ...

I found myself in North Carolina with a delivery alright. A delivery of a large tumor on my right kidney. I was told I had the worst kidney cancer possible. It was very rare (with five cases a year in ...

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