A glomerulus-on-a-chip lined by human stem cell-derived kidney cells could help model patient-specific kidney diseases and guide therapeutic discovery Date: May 10, 2017 ...

A glomerulus-on-a-chip lined by human stem cell-derived kidney cells could help model patient-specific kidney diseases and guide therapeutic discovery.

New research by the University of Bristol has found that the microscopic structure of human kidney is different to what was previously known. The kidney is a key organ balancing blood and body ...

What am I looking at? This is a cross section through a human kidney, showing the cells within a single glomerulus. The light blue circles are the cell’s nuclei (1). The green represents a protein in ...

A filtering human glomerulus is 0.2mm in diameter and the attached reabsorbing tubule is a 5cm long but only 0.06mm diameter - over a million of these fit into two fist sized kidneys. 3D ...

The membrane of the glomerulus is lined with podocytes, whose interdigitated, foot-like projections (podo is Latin for "having a foot") extend into the glomerular space.

Thanks to a recent study from Duke University we are now closer to understanding how and why SARS-CoV-2 disrupts kidney function. Using lab-synthesized kidney cells derived from human stem cells ...

To build an in vitro model of the human glomerulus that could allow probing deeper into its function, as well as its vulnerabilities to disease and drug toxicities, researchers have been attempting to ...