At every moment, your kidneys are working hard to keep you alive and healthy. Shannon Horning/ SciTech Editor While you are drinking, running, sleeping, or simply breathing, two loyal organs at ...

People with Type 2 diabetes should be concerned with their kidney function, but current testing is woefully insufficient. A ...

Baseline kidney function could help identify who is at greater risk for developing chronic kidney disease following cisplatin ...

A groundbreaking xenotransplant at Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, has set a new survival record in Asia, with a gene-edited pig kidney functioning in a patient for more than 200 days.

A USC Stem Cell-led research team has achieved a major step forward in the effort to build mouse and human synthetic kidneys.

In this Ask The Professor Q&A, David St-Jules, a registered dietitian and assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, and Dr. John Westhoff, associate professor in the School of Medicine and ...

University of Florence–led investigators report that estrogen-regulated renal progenitor cells shape pregnancy adaptation in mice with failure of estrogen receptor alpha signaling precipitating ...

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 ...

Nine out of 10 people with chronic kidney disease only find out when it progresses to later stages. Here’s what we know about its risk factors—and why there's new reason to hope for more effective ...

A new study found an association between hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) use and early and long-term benefits on kidney function in people with lupus nephritis, (LN, lupus-related kidney disease). HCQ (known ...

The human body can survive weeks without food, but only days without water. Yet millions of people walk around in a state of chronic dehydration, completely unaware that their kidneys are slowly ...