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A startup just 3D-printed kidney and liver tissue in space, a first

Auxilium says it bioprinted kidney and liver tissue on the ISS, a first. The near-term payoff is drug-testing organoids, not transplant organs.
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Scientists just grew a miniature human kidney in the lab that filters fluid on its own — a step toward building replacement organs from scratch

More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant, and most will wait years. A study published in May 2026 in npj Biomedical Innovations, a peer-reviewed Nature Portfolio journal, offers ...
Medical Xpress

Researchers grow human kidney organoids from stem cells, mirroring fetal kidney development over months

For the first time, researchers from both Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University have grown human kidney organoids (a synthetic 3D organ culture) from tissue stem cells in the laboratory, ...
STAT

Advancing kidney disease research through integrated genetic and real-world evidence

Chronic kidney disease affects more than 850 million people worldwide and remains a major global health burden.¹ Despite that scale, kidney disease research and therapeutic development have ...
EurekAlert!

First transplant in pigs of modified porcine kidneys with human renal organoids

ENG: Confocal microscopy image of a kidney organoid on day 16 of differentiation. The cells have been labelled different colours using immunofluorescence to identify specific components: LTL (green: ...