called nanoporous atomically thin membranes (NATMs), leverage a protein-enabled sealing mechanism to address a key challenge in dialysis technology, which is maintaining high efficiency in ...

He and colleagues are working on nano-pore membranes ... blood clotting factors, and antibodies–is proving to be tougher than expected. As currently practiced, dialysis is a crude procedure.

A porous silicon membrane that is a few nanometers thick can quickly filter liquids and separate molecules that are very close in size, researchers at the University of Rochester report in this ...

Over two million people worldwide depend on dialysis or a ... Some of the commercial membranes currently in use contain heparin, a medicine that reduces blood clots; however, they also have ...

Small Molecules Engineered To Probe Proteins Deep Inside Cell Membrane Date: April 1, 2007 Source: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Summary: To probe the secrets of inaccessible ...

Membrane ballooning in platelets ... thrombin and generation of a clot of fibrin (a type of protein). Platelets coordinate this local clotting process by exposing a certain type of lipid (fat ...

In this procedure, patients are connected to a dialysis ... clotting, and pumped into the dialysis machine. Inside the machine the blood and dialysis fluid are separated by a partially permeable ...