Congenital urinary tract obstruction is the single most important cause of childhood chronic kidney disease. We have previously demonstrated that human and primate fetal obstruction impairs the ...

When we drink little, we produce less urine. But how is this process regulated? An international team of scientists led by Prof. Kai Schmidt-Ott of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) ...

Researchers have created what could be a key building block for assembling a synthetic kidney. They describe how they generate rudimentary kidney structures, known as organoids, that resemble the ...

The renal tubules of the kidney function to reabsorb water, ions, and organic molecules from the filtrate destined to become urine. As it passes through the sections of the tubule, the majority of the ...

Do you recognize the shape of this yellow tree-like structure? If you guessed a kidney, you are correct! It is the collecting duct system, which funnels urine from the kidney to the bladder. And what ...