Advances in neonatal care have markedly improved the survival of preterm infants such that neonates as young as 26 wk gestation (term = 37 wk) now have a 60–80% chance of survival (1,2). There is ...

Arriving early or late can have big consequences for early-stage cells that gather to form a new kidney, a team of USC researchers discovered. The scientists showed how progenitor cells that form the ...

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 ...

The gene KCTD1 directs production of a protein that functions in the kidney to maintain a normal balance of magnesium and calcium in blood. Loss of KCTD1 impairs the ability of the kidney to properly ...

For most children with renal masses, the standard of care has long been to remove the entire affected kidney- which is the protocol for Wilms tumor, the most common kidney cancer in children. But is ...

Glucagon-sensitive adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] activity was measured in nine different portions of the rat nephron. Each sample contained a single piece of ...

Timing is everything to build kidneys from scratch Researchers show stem cells fashion kidney functions based on when they converge Date: June 4, 2018 Source: University of Southern California Summary ...

Three years ago, the FDA found so many violations at a Nephron Pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility that the U.S. regulator admitted in a warning letter the issues were so numerous they couldn’t all ...