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13/03/2025
A very common ciliopathy: polycystic kidney
Polycystic kidney disease or polycystic kidney is a pathology that affects the kidneys, the organs that filter the blood, purifying it of impurities, produce urine, keep blood pressure under control and, in general, maintain the water-salt balance of the body.
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25/02/2025
Gene transfer via lentiviral vectors identifies a subset of hepatocyte-primed cholangiocytes in the homeostatic liver
The liver has an extensive regenerative capacity that can be leveraged in gene therapy to treat genetic liver metabolic disorders as well as diseases like hemophilia, which leads to defective coagulation.
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09/02/2025
20 years of islets transplant
A new study from IRCCS San Raffaele University Hospital, published in the prestigious journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, gives the main indications to improve efficacy and safety of pancreatic islets transplant and direct future therapies for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.
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29/01/2025
What is prostate cancer and how to diagnose it
Prostate cancer is the most common solid neoplasm in the adult male population, with an incidence of over 40,000 new cases per year in Italy. It is a very heterogeneous disease, with different levels of aggressiveness, and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men worldwide.
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