The 22nd European Nephrogenesis Workshop will be held on 14 June 2019 at the UCL – Institute of Child Health in London. Registration is...

Significant strides have been made in the last few years towards the goal of engineering human renal tissue. Protocols to differentiate...

The mammalian Pax genes are homologues of the Drosophila gene paired, and are a family of transcription factors harbouring a highly...

Not directly linked to kidney development, but still pretty close… On 22 June the International Kidney Cancer Coalition is organising the...

Registration for the nephrogenesis workshop on 22 June in The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh is still open. A preliminary...

On 22 June 2017 the 20th UK/EU nephrogenesis workshop will be held at The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh. Registration is now...

The 15th International Workshop on Developmental Nephrology will be held 22-26 April 2018 in the Ein Gedi Hotel at the Dead Sea in...

The journal Development published a special issue this week on organoids. Besides a wide variety of papers on organoid systems for...

This years’ UK – and increasingly EU – nephrogenesis workshop will be organised by Derya Ozdemir and Peter Hohenstein from the Hohenstein...

From patterning of the vasculature and neuronal networks to the development of diverse organs such as the lungs, mammary glands, and...

An interesting manuscript on modelling of kidney branching just popped up on the  bioRXiv preprint server. Of course, not yet...

Many regenerative medicine approaches are based on the reprogramming of somatic cells to iPS cells, followed by directed differentiation...

Two new developments recently in the culture methods for NPCs. First of all, Tanigawa and colleagues continued on their previous work on...

Ever since the idea of Wnt molecules as a morphogen gradient emerged, the visualization of that gradient has remained elusive. Antibodies...

Happy New Year! So what can we expect or hope for in 2016? Since there were already several NPC culture methods discussed at the IWDN in...

There’s no doubt 2015 was a very good year for kidney development research. Many important developments,interesting papers and important...

There is now also a Kidney Development Facebook Group. It’s a closed group so will need my confirmation. Just search for ‘Kidney...

Did you ever google ‘kidney development’? Lots of information on kidney development, but not a recent overview of the latest things in...