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What Does the Color of Urine Mean?

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  Hydration levels affect the color of your urine. Normal urine color is from transparent to pale yellow. But some things can change the color of the urine. Foods like blackberries, beets, fava beans, and some medicines can change the urine color to orange or greenish blue. Also, an unusual problem can change the color of urine. For a person suffering from urinary Tract Infection (UTI), the color of urine can change to milky white. Other health issues like kidney stones and some specific cancers will make the urine red in color due to blood. The most normal color which should be of urine is pale yellow or transparent. Dehydration causes the color of urine to turn darker brown. Also, an important note to consider: Never ever ignore the dark red color of the urine as it indicates kidney or bladder issues. The human body explains a lot of things via the symptoms it depicts. We need to be observant enough for noticing the symptoms and signals it sends to us. Here are 7 spectrum Color ...

For More Than A Month, A Pig Kidney Continues To Function In A Human Body

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  Researchers have discovered that a genetically altered pig kidney that was transplanted into a brain-dead patient more than a month ago is still functioning normally. On July 14th, a team of surgeons performed the treatment in New York, and now, for the second month, experts are monitoring the kidney’s performance. It is the longest time a human kidney from a gene-edited pig has ever worked. Is this organ actually going to function similarly to a human organ? According to early indications, it appears to be, said Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the transplant institute at NYU Langone. The deceased patient, Maurice “Mo” Miller of upstate New York, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 57 from an unidentified brain tumour, preventing usual organ donation. His family agreed to donate his body for the study because they believed that pig kidneys might one day help to alleviate the severe lack of transplantable organs. A single kidney from a genetically modified pig was substitute...