When the UCLA team gave Cilengitide to mice with low type 5 collagen, it slowed down the scarring and kidney damage.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that the European Commission has granted regulatory approval for a label expansion of KAFTRIO® (ivacaftor/tezacaftor/elexacaftor) in a combination ...

New research has revealed that removing a protein called gasdermin D can protect the liver from inflammation and scarring in ...

State Key Laboratory of Anti-Infective Drug Discovery and Development, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China ...

Research led by Children's Hospital of Fudan University in China has found that a gene called pancreatic progenitor cell differentiation and proliferation factor (PPDPF) helps protect kidney cells by ...

In cystic fibrosis, individuals who have been pregnant have a similar survival probability and a lower hazard of death vs those who have never been pregnant, according to study findings published in ...

Death in Paradise season 14 has been a great first series for ex-EastEnders star Don Gilet, who joined as the show's new leading man, Detective Inspector Mervin Wilson. He later added: "I am delighted ...

Myelofibrosis is a rare blood cancer in which the bone marrow stem cells acquire a genetic defect ... the date of transplantation to the date of death (uncensored) or to the date of disease ...

Fibroblast cells do this to close wounds, but the process can cascade in unwanted places. Examples include cardiac fibrosis; kidney or liver fibrosis, which precedes cancer; and pulmonary fibrosis ...

cells, and molecular docking were used. Results: YQQRG treatment significantly improved renal function, pathological damage, and renal fibrosis in UUO mice. Ten blood-entering components and 403 ...

may hasten kidney failure and death, even before the onset of anemia, new study findings suggest. Among 18,878 hospitalized Chinese patients with CKD not on dialysis, ferritin levels, reflecting ...

When we think of death, we imagine a final, irreversible end. But what if death is not as absolute as it seems? What if some parts of us — our cells, our tissues — continue to fight for ...