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Kidney tissue grown from induced stem cells

Engineered human cells that can give rise to every cell type have been induced to generate structures that resemble an embryonic kidney. This advance charts a course towards growing transplantable kidneys in culture. See Letter p.564

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Figure 1: From stem cell to self-organizing tissue.

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Davies, J. Kidney tissue grown from induced stem cells. Nature 526, 512–513 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15639

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