Renal fibrosis is a direct consequence of the kidney’s limited capacity to regenerate after injury. Renal scarring results in a progressive loss of renal function, ultimately leading to end-stage ...

A team led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has developed advanced synthetic kidney structures that combine previously separate organoid components. The new “assembloids,” ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking discovery offers hope for reversing kidney damage, challenging the notion that it's irreversible.

The discovery of how certain key structures in the kidneys are formed could have important implications for treating renal fibrosis (or scarring), a feature of chronic kidney disease (CKD), according ...

In patients with diabetic nephropathy, glomerulopathy is an important renal structural change. The kidney consists of four basic tissue types: vessels, glomeruli, tubules, and interstitium. Each of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Interaction of heart disease with kidney disease may be present at subclinical stages. Echocardiographic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A meta-analysis suggests renal denervation treatment improves measures of cardiac structure in addition to ...

“Scientists have grown a kidney in a laboratory and shown that it works when implanted into a living animal”, The Guardian reports. As this story suggests, early stage research has shown that rat ...