In the lab, it’s easier to grow simple balls of cells than complex asymmetrical structures with two distinct ends—like the one million filtering units, or nephrons, that make up a human kidney. But ...

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 ...

QUEENSLAND researchers have grown tiny kidneys in a Petri dish, renewing hopes that lab-grown organs will be used in the fight against renal disease. Scientist Melissa Little and colleagues used human ...