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Soluble signals released by neighboring cells direct how the human kidney is built
August 05, 2026
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Aug. 5 -- The University of Pennsylvania posted the following news:

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Soluble signals released by neighboring cells direct how the human kidney is built

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A human kidney is built once, before birth, and the rules guiding its construction have been largely inferred from animal models. Researchers have now read those rules directly in human tissue. Experts at Penn Medicine have found that developing cells are steer . . .

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