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Growing Up Kidney Podocytes

Mature kidney podocyte
Winston Churchill’s comment that Russia is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” might equally apply [MORE]

“Cell Sliding” in Organ Regeneration

Chiral cell sliding drives left-right asymmetric organ twisting
Developmental biologists at Osaka University recently announced an important finding relative to organ regeneration: [MORE]

Blueprint for Building Kidneys

 
Nephron formation
University of Southern California regenerative medicine scientists have found a key element in timing for nephron development.  They “. [MORE]

Stem Cells to Kidney Organoids

 
Robots Generating Kidney Organoids from Stem Cells
University of Washington engineers and clinicians have developed “a robotic system . . . [MORE]

Biomarker Preservation at Room Temperature

Transport of Specimens without Refrigeration
Quoting directly: “Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method to preserve protein [MORE]

First in vitro Kidney Tissue

Kidney Glomeruli
In a first for regenerative medicine, bioengineers at the University of Manchester have grown functional human kidney tissue organelles [MORE]

Kidney-on-a-Chip Goes to the ISS

International Space Station
According to a pharmacy professor at the University of Washington, weightlessness accelerates kidney diseases. “In the microgravity environment [MORE]

3-D Printing: The Nephron’s Proximal Tube

Kidney Nephron
With some 93,000 people now waiting—in some cases up to ten years—for a live kidney transplant, the need for [MORE]

Kidney-on-a-Chip

Ryan Oliver Makes Kidney on Chip
Bioengineers at the University of Michigan have developed a microfluidics chip containing live kidney cells [MORE]

3-D Printing Supports Kidney Transplant in a Toddler

Kidney Model
News stories about 3-D printing of a functional organ such as a kidney or liver have to be carefully [MORE]

Growing Nephrons from Stem Cells

Kidney Structure
The idea of being able to grow functional kidneys from pluripotent stem cells is one step closer to reality, [MORE]

Kidney Structures from 3-D Printing

3D Printed Capillaries
Printing organs does not appear to be on the near term horizon, but persistently 3-D printing is moving [MORE]

Wearable Artificial Kidney

Wearable Artificial Kidney
It make take a willing suspension of disbelief to see this wearable artificial kidney allowing dialysis patients to [MORE]

A Regenerated Kidney that Works (Transplanted in Rats)

Bioengineered Rat Kidney
A few years ago, Doris Taylor at the University of Minnesota recreated a rat’s beating heart on [MORE]