Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) bioengineered rat kidneys that successfully produced urine both in a laboratory apparatus and after being transplanted into living animals. In ...

Urine is a highly saturated solution of extremely complicated composition. Its basic organic constituents are urea, uric acid and its salts, formed by the oxidation of purines. In that fluid, ...

The discovery of how certain key structures in the kidneys are formed could have important implications for treating renal fibrosis (or scarring), a feature of chronic kidney disease (CKD), according ...

Urine may seem like a mundane bodily function, but it can detect a lot about your overall health, particularly the state of ...