Vol. 57, No. 2, SPECIAL REVIEW SERIES ON 3D ORGANOTYPIC AND ORGANOID CULTURE MODELS (FEBRUARY 2021), pp. 133-147 (15 pages) The human kidney, which consists of up to 2 million nephrons, is critical ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition that begins with tissue damage and gradually leads to loss of kidney function. The condition, which affects about 10% of the global population, ...

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 ...

A research effort led by scientists from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) has led to the development of more mature and complex lab-grown kidney progenitor ...

“You’re on a chemotherapeutic and your oncologist may say that your dosage is X, while a nephrologist is telling you that the proximal tubules in your kidneys can’t handle it. You’re harming them.” ...

For the first time, researchers from both Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University have grown human kidney organoids (a synthetic 3D organ culture) from tissue stem cells in the laboratory, ...