Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists have identified a new therapeutic approach for treating polycystic kidney disease (PKD), one of the most common life threatening, inherited diseases in humans, affecting more than 1 in 500 individuals. Patients with the disease experience an abnormal proliferation of kidney cells that ultimately results in cysts and a decline in organ function leading to kidney failure.... Read more about Patient stem cells offer insight into origins of polycystic kidney disease
It has long been a given that adult humans — and mammals in general — lack the capacity to grow new nephrons, the kidney’s delicate blood filtering tubules, which has meant that dialysis, and ultimately kidney transplantation, is the only option for the more than 450,000 Americans who have kidney failure.... Read more about Adult kidney stem cells found in fish
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists have identified a new therapeutic approach for treating 
It has long been a given that adult humans — and mammals in general — lack the capacity to grow new