Associate Professor in Microvascular Medicine, Rebecca Foster, explores therapeutic approaches to improve kidney health for ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects more than 700 million people worldwide and is caused by genetic and environmental factors, as well as existing medical conditions. Known genetic risk factors for ...

This cell cluster may look jumbled, but it is well organized. Called a glomerulus, it’s a cluster of cells from a kidney; it filters and processes blood to maintain proper levels of water, salt, and ...

A study published in Advanced Healthcare Materials describes the bioengineering of three-dimensional (3D) kidney glomerular microtissues that replicate the glomerular filtration barrier (GFB) ...

An image of a mouse kidney glomerulus taken on a fluorescence microscope showing cell nuclei in blue, the PIEZO2 gene in magenta, and the renin gene in green. Each dot represents a single mRNA ...