A study claims to have discovered a new human organ that could help scientists better understand its impact on diseases such as cancer. The study published Tuesday in Scientific Reports suggests this ...

Pax2 is a transcription factor that is crucial for kidney development, and it is also expressed in the normal adult kidney, where its physiological function is unknown. In the present study, we find ...

The interstitium, the shock-absorbing tissue underneath the skin, gut and blood vessels, has been identified as an organ for the first time according to a new study. Supported by a mesh of strong and ...

A study claims to have discovered a new human organ that could help scientists better understand its impact on diseases such as cancer. Scientists using a special live imaging technique called a Probe ...

The interstitium is an organ that was recently discovered by researchers in the human body. Research, published in the journal Scientific Reports on Tuesday, stated a network of dense connective ...

Thanks to a laser-equipped mini-microscope developed by a French start-up, scientists have discovered a previously undetected feature of the human anatomy that could help explain why some cancers ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

IT is well established that hypertonic urine is produced in. the kidney by means of a countercurrent multiplier system and that the formation of such urine requires a hyper-osmotic medullary ...

The formation of kidney stones is clearly a multifactorial process. Normal human urine is often supersaturated with respect to one or more crystalline compounds; for example calcium oxalate, calcium ...

Scientists said in a study published Tuesday that they may have stumbled on a previously unknown organ — one of the biggest in the human body and one that could significantly advance our understanding ...