Genetic studies performed in humans and mutant mice have implicated a number of critical genes, in utero environmental factors and molecular mechanisms that regulate nephron endowment and kidney size.

Professor Kenji Osafune (Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation) and his team of researchers have devised an effective ...

A mother says she is being driven mad by fleas and mice in her council home, just weeks after moving in. Lucy Day says she has to live in one room of her Margate flat as her three-year-old ...

Its main clinical manifestations are persistent proteinuria and/or a progressive decline in the estimated glomerular filtration rate ... adhesion ability and podocyte-specific marker protein (nephrin, ...