British researchers successfully developed kidney tissue inside of mice using human stem cells, according to a study published in the journal Stem Cell Reports. To produce the kidney tissue, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered yet another way to make a kidney - at least for a rat - that does everything a natural one does, researchers reported on Sunday, a step toward savings ...

For many people with IgA nephropathy (IgAN), a condition in which immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies accumulate in the kidneys and trigger inflammation, kidney function stays stable for many years. For ...

Even as a child, La’Tonzia Adams was interested in diagnosing disease. One day, when she noticed a bump on her chest, she decided to look up “chicken pox” in the Webster’s dictionary at her ...

Scientists have done the impossible and transplanted a lab-grown kidney into a living animal. Or to be specific, a living rat. It might sound crazy—and believe us, it is—but the success represents a ...

Four distinct factors—malnutrition, inflammation, acidosis, and hyperkalemia—were recently assessed in more than 1500 patients with community-acquired AKI. Among these patients with mild-to-moderate ...

Mason Burke is just two years old and already, he is facing a major medical challenge. He is in need of a kidney transplant ...

A nephrology resident begins a weekend call shift managing dialysis patients and kidney failure cases. One patient misses two dialysis sessions and arrives severely short of breath with fluid overload ...