Scientists Manufacture ‘Laboratory-Grown’ Kidney

04/14/2013, When it comes to matching organs such as kidneys and livers from donors, that can be quite a tough thing to do, not to mention an extremely short list of donors are available in addition to a super long waiting [...]

Grown Kidney “Organoids” Work in Rats

10/22/2012, With 26 million Americans having chronic kidney disease and almost 100,000 waiting for a kidney transplant, the numbers themselves are rather grim. Although the amount of donors and transplants has risen recently, researchers are still looking for ways to build [...]

iPad 2 for your kidney?

06/02/2011, While our internal organs are mostly singular, some of them come in pairs, like lungs and kidneys. Functioning with one lung is very challenging, but with a single kidney? Life’s not too bad after all, but then again how many [...]