More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant, and most will wait years. A study published in May 2026 in npj Biomedical Innovations, a peer-reviewed Nature Portfolio journal, offers ...

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered how a SOX9 switch determines the successful regeneration of kidney cells. When kidney tissues are damaged there are two outcomes. Either the damage is temporary – whereby ...

Artificial, lab-grown organs are one of the holy grails of medicine, and we are one step closer to making it happen with ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis helped lead a major study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), that uncovered rich cellular and molecular diversity ...

In videos created by the Hughes Lab to visualize the process, adjacent nephrons form one after the other, as if they were following a beat. “It’s still a hypothesis,” adds Hughes, “but we think that ...

After nearly two decades of life-threatening illness, repeated complications, and organ failure, 33-year-old Briana Dery of ...

Because your kidneys are so essential for your well-being, keeping them healthy and functioning at their best is ...

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, ...