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Read the latest reports and articles in the April 8, 2014, issue of Stem Cell Reports, the ISSCR's online, open-access journal.

Over the past few decades, the rates of chronic kidney disease have risen due to conditions like diabetes, hypertension, immune-mediated disease and cardiovascular disease. Stem cell researchers are now using organoids, lab-grown models of human organs, to better understand kidney disease. In the future, organoids may also provide an important test model for experimental drugs.