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Antibiotic resistance is increasing at an alarming rate, causing global concern. University of Otago researchers have secured funding to find out if a commonly prescribed medicine is adding to the problem.
Researchers show how low-protein diet during pregnancy can cause kidney problems in babies Besides being underweight, babies born to women whose diet lacked sufficient protein during pregnancy tend to have kidney problems resulting from alterations that occurred while their organs were forming during the embryonic stage of their development. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers affiliated with the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, discovered the cause of the problem at the molecular level and its link to epigenetic phenomena (changes in gene expres...
E-Mail IMAGE: The confocal microscope images show embryos kidney during developmental phase. Each green-point show a individual nephrogenic stem cell. In low protein-restricted offspring this cells are 28% reduced compared to normal... view more Credit: Patrícia Aline Boer Besides being underweight, babies born to women whose diet lacked sufficient protein during pregnancy tend to have kidney problems resulting from alterations that occurred while their organs were forming during the embryonic stage of their development. In a study PLOS ONE, researchers affiliated with the Univ...