After seeing an implantable heart prototype, Nephrodite's co-founders wondered whether an implantable kidney was feasible.

The University of Wisconsin transplant team recently collaborated with the UW National Primate Research Center and the UW Veterinary Hospital to pursue a novel kidney transplant procedure involving ...

The implementation of a new U.S. kidney transplant allocation system did not solve many of the inequities that low-income and minority kidney disease patients face, Drexel University College of ...

University of Kansas Medical Center nephrologist Dr. Jason Stubbs thinks his research could help millions of Americans who ...

The study also discovered that kidney's lymphatics may become disorganized and spread into interior parts of the kidney (medulla), where they are not generally found. The study was published in the ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition that begins with tissue damage and gradually leads to loss of kidney ...

Lupus affects different people in different ways. Many people with lupus have problems with their kidneys. How does lupus affect the kidneys? Your kidneys filter waste and extra water out of your ...

The regenerative capacity of tissues is limited by cell necrosis, which triggers inflammation via release of damage-associated molecular patterns The regenerative capacity of the kidney enables ...

Researchers at NYU Langone Health reversed the rejection of a transplanted pig kidney, taking first steps toward substituting a human kidney with a genetically modified one.  The November study aimed ...