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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 […]

WU Nephrology Integral Part in CZI Push to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), founded by Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, has an ambitious goal: to help scientists cure, manage, or prevent all disease by the end of the century. As part of that goal, in 2017, CZI funded 38 pilot projects to contribute to the Human Cell […]