Millions of patients walk out of primary-care offices each year with lab results that read “normal” while early signs of ...

While acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common and serious condition that carries the risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD), its short- and long-term effects are not well characterized in ...

Chronic kidney disease affects more than 850 million people worldwide and continues to impose a heavy clinical and economic ...

In the lab, it's easier to grow simple balls of cells than complex asymmetrical structures with two distinct ends—like the one million filtering units—nephrons—that make up a human kidney. But new ...

In a world first, researchers from Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University have successfully grown human kidney organoids – a synthetic 3D organ culture – using kidney tissue stem cells. The ...

A USC Stem Cell-led research team has achieved a major step forward in the effort to build mouse and human synthetic kidneys. In a new paper published in Cell Stem Cell, the scientists describe ...

This is the longest-lived set of developing kidney organoids derived from tissue stem cells The kidney developed over a half a year, enabling real-time observation, gene isolation for birth defects ...