Our bodies are perfectly capable of renewing billions of cells every day but fail miserably when it comes to replacing damaged organs such as kidneys. Using the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea -- ...

Approximately 100,000 patients in the USA are awaiting kidney transplantation. Waitlist mortality is 5–10% and ∼40% of transplant recipients will die or lose graft function within 10 years of ...

Several groups have developed lab-grown mini kidneys, but connecting the organoids to a host animal’s excretory system has been a challenge. The Jikei University team applied an approach called ...

The excretory system is a passive biological system that removes excess, unnecessary materials from the body fluids of an organism, so as to help maintain internal chemical homeostasis and prevent ...