Hypertension is both a symptom and complication of kidney disease. With C3G and IC-MPGN, blood pressure management is a foundational ‘shield’ that protects kidney function regardless of other ...

Scientists report significant progress in cultivating nephron progenitor cells (NPCs), the cells destined to form the kidney's filtration system, the nephrons. NPCs hold immense promise for ...

In videos created by the Hughes Lab to visualize the process, adjacent nephrons form one after the other, as if they were following a beat. “It’s still a hypothesis,” adds Hughes, “but we think that ...

A scoring criterion which can distinguish between benign and malignant tumors in pediatric patients with renal masses could help determine if they can benefit from partial rather than radical ...