Digital image of the microscopic structure of kidney tissue biopsied from a patient with diabetes. The green circles indicate the computer's prediction of glomeruli,which are kidney structures that ...

A research team based in Kumamoto University (Japan) has created complex 3D kidney tissue in the lab solely from cultured mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. These organoids could lead the way to better ...

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 research team based in Kumamoto University (Japan) has created complex 3D kidney tissue in the lab solely from cultured mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. These organoids could lead the way to better ...

At the moment, artificial kidney tissue - in the form of clusters of cells known as organoids - is far from clinical usefulness. Whereas normal kidneys involve an ordered collection of different cell ...

Over 93,000 people in the US are in need of a kidney transplant. Our kidneys are delicate organs that can be damaged by a poor diet, overuse of alcohol or anti-inflammatory drugs, and high blood ...