By studying how nephrons form during normal human development, researchers have created a blueprint that makes it possible to ...

To help patients in need of transplants, artificial kidneys would have to function like their natural counterparts, but they wouldn’t necessarily have to look like them. With a new $1 million prize ...

The nephrons are the structures of the kidney that filter the blood and reabsorb water and other molecules. Each nephron consists of a tubule and a glomerulus. We present a protocol to purify and ...