A human kidney is built once, before birth, and the rules guiding its construction have been largely inferred from animal models. Researchers at Penn Medicine have now read those rules directly in ...

Semaglutide provides multifaceted kidney protection and improves structural markers in patients with T2D and chronic kidney disease.

Researchers have created a complex kidney tissue solely from mouse embryonic stem cells. These organoids could lead the way to better kidney research and, eventually, artificial kidneys for human ...

A new review proposes a house-shaped framework that uses validated kidney and cardiovascular risk tools, with the higher-risk ...

Medically reviewed by Matthew Wosnitzer, MD Key Takeaways The main tests for kidney disease are an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) blood test and a urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) ...

Scientists have discovered a way to fully reverse acute kidney injury in mice by blocking harmful ceramide molecules that damage kidney cell mitochondria. This breakthrough, targeting metabolism ...