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High glucose drove inflammation in human kidney organoids that have no immune cells
In Stem Cell Reports, a team led by Benjamin Freedman reports that stem-cell-derived kidney organoids, which contain no immune cells and no blood vessels, shed podocytes in high-glucose media, and that blocking MIF or TNF-alpha protected them. The pattern resembles what patient biopsies show.
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