Protein plays a central role in muscle growth, athletic performance, and overall healthy living. For most people with healthy ...

In videos created by the Hughes Lab to visualize the process, adjacent nephrons form one after the other, as if they were following a beat. “It’s still a hypothesis,” adds Hughes, “but we think that ...

Kidneys form as their tubules branch, a variable process that leads to some people's kidneys having nine times as many nephrons as others - and potentially many more times the filtration power and ...

A fast-aging fish is giving scientists a rare, accelerated look at how kidneys grow old—and how a common drug may slow that ...

The combination of ADPKD genotype and baseline kidney size can predict rapid kidney function decline in routine clinical practice. Combining genotype and kidney length can identify nearly 9 out of 10 ...

Calcium oxalate stones comprise greater than 70% of all kidney stones. In the current conceptual framework, the initial stone ...