Human kidney progenitors isolated, offering new clues to cell renewal

ScienceDaily referenced a study involving Longevity Institute’s Laura Perin.

“‘[T]his system will facilitate studies of human kidney development, providing a novel tool for renal regeneration and bioengineering purposes,’ says principal investigator Laura Perin, PhD, co-director of CHLA [Children’s Hospital Los Angeles]’s GOFARR Laboratory for Organ Regenerative Research and Cell Therapeutics in Urology.”