A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a method to predict early-stage kidney damage ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitor-based combinations have become the preferred first-line therapy for patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma, but more than a third of eligible patients do ...

Learn how genetic testing can help diagnose and treat APOL1-mediated kidney disease, a common cause of kidney failure in ...

The global burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is rising, with more than 800 million people affected worldwide. Vascular diseases in patients with CKD are unique and grouped as uremic vascular ...

The landscape has dramatically changed in the management of small kidney tumors. Increased early detection of tumors, advancements in the understanding of tumor biology, progression of surgical ...

"Chronic kidney disease presents a large time window of opportunity for intervention, and you need a precision medicine approach to determine who is likely to have accelerated disease progression and ...

1. Pain in the back, belly, or side Kidney stone pain — also known as renal colic — is one of the most severe types of pain imaginable. The pain is intense enough to account for more than half ...

New UCLA research conducted using mouse models and human genetic data has uncovered a critical factor that determines how much scarring occurs following kidney injury, leading scientists to ...

More information: Collagen V regulates renal function after kidney injury and can be pharmacologically targeted to enhance kidney repair in mice, Science Translational Medicine (2025). www.science ...

Previous studies showed that renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure is elevated in obese dogs compared with lean dogs, and histological studies revealed increases in medullary interstitial cells and ...

Renal progenitor cells and kidney growth As outlined above, nephrons form continuously at the cortex of the developing kidney from uninduced mesenchymal precursor cells. Hence, nephron induction ...