More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant, and most will wait years. A study published in May 2026 in npj Biomedical Innovations, a peer-reviewed Nature Portfolio journal, offers ...

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

Chronic kidney disease affects more than 850 million people worldwide and remains a major global health burden.¹ Despite that scale, kidney disease research and therapeutic development have ...

This is the longest-lived set of developing kidney organoids derived from tissue stem cells The kidney developed over a half a year, enabling real-time observation, gene isolation for birth defects ...

A USC Stem Cell-led research team has achieved a major step forward in the effort to build mouse and human synthetic kidneys. In a new paper published in Cell Stem Cell, the scientists describe ...

THAT’S COMING UP AT 430. ERIKA BEN. THANK YOU. WE TURN TO SOME BREAKING HEALTH NEWS. A YEAR AFTER BECOMING ONE OF THE WORLD’S FIRST RECIPIENTS OF A GENETICALLY MODIFIED PIG KIDNEY, A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAN ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients referred to a glomerular kidney disease center for genetic evaluation, 35% received a positive ...

THE CHANCE OF FLAKES FOR SOME ON SUNDAY THAT’S COMING UP. NOW TO THE BREAKING NEWS. A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAN IS HOME RECOVERING IN CONCORD AFTER A HUMAN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT. JUST LAST YEAR, HE BECAME ONE OF ...

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: ...