10 August 2025
Developing a Kidney
Human foetal kidney-derived organoids are successfully grown for prolonged periods in the lab providing faithful models of kidney development and for disease and regenerative studies. The models reveal the role of the Notch signalling pathway of molecules in controlling early human kidney development
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- Image from work by Michael Namestnikov and colleagues
- The Pediatric Stem Cell Research Institute and Pediatric Nephrology Division, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in The EMBO Journal, July 2025
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