Kidney Diseases Traced to Molecularly Defined Cell Types

To know the kidney is to know its cells, all of them, every type and subtype, and how they sustain health or contribute to disease. Although many kinds of kidney cells have been distinguished based on their function, anatomical location, or small numbers of marker genes, the kidney is still perceived but vaguely, in the sense that differences between existing cell-based classification schemes have yet to be fully resolved. To bring the kidney into sharper focus, a team of scientists at the Unive