Mature kidney podocyte

Winston Churchill’s comment that Russia is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” might equally apply to the kidney’s complexity and its possibilities in regenerative medicine. But in recent years, researchers have made leaps in knowledge—for example, in generating functional kidney organoids, and, in this piece, culturing induced pluripotent stem cells into mature podocytes (kidney cells that filter blood).   The process that scientists at the Wyss Institute (Harvard University) developed for growing podocytes and then using them in a Glomerulus Chip might apply to the many other kidney cell types.   MORE

Image Credit: Wyss Institute, Harvard University