Modeling Kidney Disease with iPS Cells

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are somatic cells that have been transcriptionally reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell (ESC)-like state. iPSCs are a renewable source of diverse somatic cell types and tissues matching the original patient, including nephron-like kidney organoids. iPSCs have...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benjamin S. Freedman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Biomarker Insights
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/BMI.S20054