In a bid to improve organ transplant options in the future, a team led by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shown that it's possible to produce pig embryos containing "humanized" ...

Kidney development is a complex and tightly regulated process that establishes the organ’s unique architecture and function through intricate cellular interactions and spatial patterning. Central to ...

In videos created by the Hughes Lab to visualize the process, adjacent nephrons form one after the other, as if they were following a beat. “It’s still a hypothesis,” adds Hughes, “but we think that ...

A pair of USC Stem Cell mouse studies detail how progenitor cells self-renew, differentiate, and aggregate into early kidney structures, offering insights for the creation of stem cell-based ...

Current methods for testing potential treatments for kidney disease do not take genetic variation into account for how treatments may vary from patient to patient. To address this issue, an ...

"I find the development of the kidney to be a really beautiful process," says Hughes. Most people only ever see the organ in cross-section, through textbooks or by dissecting animal kidneys in high ...

Medical researchers have grown 'miniature kidneys' in the laboratory that could be used to better understand how kidney diseases develop in individual patients. These kidney organoids were grown ...

NIJMEGEN, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aiosyn, a pioneering medical software company specializing in AI-powered pathology solutions for cancer and kidney disease, announced the introduction of its ...

There are some genetic variations that are linked to an increased risk of developing kidney disease such as variations in MYH9 and APOL1 genes. Now, researchers at the Australian National University ...

New research looked at how cancers arise in children who are predisposed to developing the childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumor, which could help anticipate the development of tumors before they fully ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with a cohort free of kidney disease, patients with primary nephrotic syndrome were nearly 20-times ...