A Post-Doc Builds Proto-Kidneys from Scratch
More than 30 million Americans suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD), including thousands in Maine. When someone’s kidneys fail, they face limited choices for managing their health: a lifetime on dialysis or finding a suitable (and willing) kidney donor. At MDI Bio Lab an international research group is doing ground-breaking work on a potentially better alternative: new kidney tissue or even whole kidneys grown from a patient’s own stem cells.
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