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 ...

New research helps to better understand the blood clotting process ... 3-D structure of a protein in blood platelets and a receptor that sticks through the membrane of the cell to the outside.

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.

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 ...

A new study reports an increased risk of blood clotting at ... electrolytes across a membrane during each three- to four-hour session. Patients are attached to the dialysis machine through several ...

Calcium-free dialysate appears more effective than use of heparin-coated membranes for reducing dialysis filter clotting, a preliminary trial found. Regional anticoagulation using calcium-free ...

Finally, dialysis patients’ fibrinogen—a protein that is converted into fibrin during blood clot formation—exhibited certain modifications that were different from fibrinogen from patients ...

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 ...

Fresenius Medical Care received a breakthrough device designation from the FDA for a new hemodialysis system that is designed to prevent blood clots ... its protein coating that hides dialysis ...

Peptides were designed to examine the significance of two integrin in blood clotting. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have designed peptides that are able to bind ...