In a bid to improve organ transplant options in the future, a team led by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shown that it's possible to produce pig embryos containing "humanized" ...

Kidney development is a complex and tightly regulated process that establishes the organ’s unique architecture and function through intricate cellular interactions and spatial patterning. Central to ...

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 ...

A pair of USC Stem Cell mouse studies detail how progenitor cells self-renew, differentiate, and aggregate into early kidney structures, offering insights for the creation of stem cell-based ...

A severe organ shortage plagues the progress of organ transplantation. One solution may be to generate human organs in other large mammals, however, that process is challenging. Now, researchers have ...

MDI Bio Lab scientists discovered how zebrafish solve a basic challenge in regenerative biology—insights in their newest ...

"I find the development of the kidney to be a really beautiful process," says Hughes. Most people only ever see the organ in cross-section, through textbooks or by dissecting animal kidneys in high ...

NIJMEGEN, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aiosyn, a pioneering medical software company specializing in AI-powered pathology solutions for cancer and kidney disease, announced the introduction of its ...

New research looked at how cancers arise in children who are predisposed to developing the childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumor, which could help anticipate the development of tumors before they fully ...