Advances in genome sequencing and genetic manipulation techniques over the last decade have helped identify numerous single-gene causes of early-onset kidney diseases and risk alleles for complex, ...

(Nanowerk News) Understanding how genes act in specific tissues is critical to our ability to combat many human diseases, from heart disease to kidney failure to cancer. Yet isolating individual cell ...

The classic triad of renal cell carcinoma (flank pain, haematuria, and a palpable abdominal mass) is observed in only 9% of ...

A new method developed by researchers called "in silico nano-dissection" uses computers rather than scalpels to separate and identify genes from specific cell types, enabling the systematic study of ...