Tag: Kidneys

  • Science & Tech

    A step closer to tissue-engineered kidneys

    The Wyss Institute and Roche Innovation Center Basel in Switzerland have teamed up to create 3-D bioprinted proximal tubules beside functioning blood vessel compartments, closely mimicking the kidney’s blood-filtration system that removes waste products while returning “good” molecules, such as glucose and amino acids, back into the bloodstream.

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  • Health

    Engineered mini-kidneys come of age

    By exposing stem cell-derived kidney organoids to fluidic shear stress, A team of Harvard researchers has significantly expanded the organoids’ vascular networks and improved the maturation of kidney compartments.

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    Culturing kidney organoids
  • Health

    Converting skin cells to stem cells creates ‘kidney structures’

    Researchers create complex kidney structures from human stem cells derived from the skin of adult patients.

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