Close to Growing Functional Kidneys
December 11, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
Embryonic kidney cells fail to develop into functional renal tissue because they require a blood supply to mature. To address this limitation, researchers at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (Milan, Italy) coated embryonic cells in angiogenesis compounds. When the resulting “organoids” were transplanted in animals, and the blood vessel-forming molecules were injected, filtering kidney tissue developed. MORE