In a study published in Science, USC researchers paired a biological discovery with an engineering feat to create more ...

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—nephrons—that make up a human kidney. But new ...

In a world first, researchers from Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University have successfully grown human kidney organoids – a synthetic 3D organ culture – using kidney tissue stem cells. The ...

Patient education should function as preventive medicine instead of an afterthought delivered late in disease progression.

Scientific research has allowed for the synthesis of all kinds of things, from raw chemical elements and structures to biological systems. When it comes to raw materials, such synthesis can greatly ...

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 ...

Today, health plans are shifting dollars to more value-based contracts along with investments in population health management. Digitizing lab results across all care settings and unlocking the ...