Kidney disease has long been considered a progressive and irreversible condition, where treatment focuses only on slowing decline rather than restoring lost function. However, a promising scientific ...

Investigators have discovered why some injured kidneys heal while others develop scarring that can lead to kidney failure. Their findings could lead to the development of noninvasive tests to detect ...

SINGAPORE, 1 February 2023 – In a world first, scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School, the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) and colleagues in Germany have shown that regenerative therapy to ...

Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, and scientists have found that infusing just a small dose of a cytokine, thought to help cause that failure, can instead prevent or reverse it. The ...

Diabetic kidney disease is a potential complication of diabetes. Over long periods of time, insufficiently controlled blood sugar can lead to kidney damage. While it is not possible to reverse kidney ...

Medicines first developed to treat type 2 diabetes are proving to have benefits far beyond controlling blood sugar. A major new study has found that a group of drugs called GLP-1 receptor agonists can ...

A treatment strategy using an antibody that inhibits a cell signaling protein called interleukin-11 (IL-11) could lead to new hope for people with a debilitating genetic kidney disease called Alport ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania revealed the most extensive single cell atlas of the human kidney, ...

Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in kidney research. In a paper published in the journal Communications Biology, a team of researchers at Kyoto University led by Ramin Sadeghian present ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a promising gene-editing therapy that directly corrects a genetic mutation responsible for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), the most common ...