The human kidney is made up of about a million nephrons, the filtering units of this complex and highly vascular organ. Each nephron is composed of a highly coiled tubule, one end of which forms a cup ...

Generation of differentiated kidney cell types from pluripotent stem cells would be enormously useful for research and therapeutic purposes, but progress towards this goal has so far been limited. In ...

TEM from a murine renal glomerulus with podocytes, endothelial cells, basal lamina, and mesangial cells shown. The glomerulus is a dense network of capillaries surrounded by the Bowman’s capsule in ...

Scientists have now begun to understand kidney damage on a cellular level and how the activity of certain molecules in damaged kidneys contributes to salt and water retention in nephrotic syndrome.