“You’re on a chemotherapeutic and your oncologist may say that your dosage is X, while a nephrologist is telling you that the proximal tubules in your kidneys can’t handle it. You’re harming them.” ...

This image, produced by a fluorescence microscope, shows a normal renal proximal tubule, the specific nephron segment in the kidney that is impaired in the rare disease infantile cystinosis. The red, ...

The purpose of this communication is to present certain data pertinent to this syndrome and to suggest that treatment based on the pathological physiology of this type of renal failure offers ...

In the lab, it’s easier to grow simple balls of cells than complex asymmetrical structures with two distinct ends—like the one million filtering units, or nephrons, that make up a human kidney. But ...