Tag: induced pluripotent stem cells

Dr. Joseph V. Bonventre to Deliver Aubrey R. Morrison Lectureship

Joseph V. Bonventre, MD, PhD, the Samuel A. Levine Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Emeritus of the Division of Renal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will deliver the annual Aubrey R. Morrison Lectureship.  His talk, “KIM-1: A Translational Journey Through Non-Malignant and Malignant Kidney Disease,” will take place on Friday, […]

Refining the Recipe to Turn Stem Cells into Kidney Cells

The science of coaxing stem cells into kidney cells just became a little more refined. Researchers in the Humphreys Laboratory in the Division of Nephrology at Washington University show that protocols used to grow kidney organoids from human stem cells can be modified to produce more kidney-specific cells and less “off-target” contaminating cells. Organoids are […]