Kidney Disease

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Health & Medicine

Making the case for the global kidney exchange

The Global Kidney Exchange, which aims to expand the kidney donor pool, has been criticised as ‘organ trafficking’, but the counter argument is that it will save the lives of rich and poor patients alike

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Health & Medicine

Bringing 3D imaging to kidney patients

By using 3D computer imaging in kidney disease clinicians can bring patients the kind of detail normally only available to researchers using electron microscopes

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Diabetes and exercise capacity linked to glycogen in muscle tissue

Researchers show that a gene which converts glucose to glycogen in muscle tissue improves blood sugar levels and increases exercise capacity