The kidney, a critical organ for waste filtration and fluid regulation, is the subject of a groundbreaking molecular mapping project that could reshape our understanding of renal health. Despite ...

A team led by USC Stem Cell scientist Zhongwei Li, PhD, has produced some of the most complex and mature lab-grown kidney ...

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine identified over 1,000 genes that could serve as potential treatment targets for kidney disease in a newly published study. The study marks the most ...

Spanish scientists have successfully combined human kidney organoids with pig kidneys and transplanted them back into the same animal, therefore creating the world’s first functional human-pig hybrid ...

ENG: Confocal microscopy image of a kidney organoid on day 16 of differentiation. The cells have been labelled different colours using immunofluorescence to identify specific components: LTL (green: ...

More than 100,000 men, women, and children are on the organ transplant waiting list in the United States, and most of them—nearly 90,000, as of March 2025—need a kidney. People wait years to receive a ...

In a world first, researchers from Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University have successfully grown human kidney organoids – a synthetic 3D organ culture – using kidney tissue stem cells. The ...

(CNN) — One year ago, Tim Andrews was among the world’s first recipients of a genetically modified pig kidney. Now, he is the first in that small group of pioneers to go on to receive a human kidney. ...

David-Alexandre C. Gros, MD, CEO of Eledon Pharmaceuticals, is overjoyed to learn that the second patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney developed by eGenesis has been released from the ...