Kidney regeneration refers to the repair and regrowth of new kidney tissue as a therapeutic way to restore the normal capacity of the kidneys by generating new kidney-forming cells.
The adult kidneys are an excellent source from which to extract renal cells to expand and exploit their kidney cell forming capacities outside the body.
The kidney can regenerates itself through transplant of kidney stem cells that help replace lost or damaged kidney tissue, single cells that reside in different segments of the kidney operate as kidney-forming cells to give rise to new cells within each kidney compartment.
This new technique overturns decades of common belief that such a regeneration was not possible thus opening a path in medical science toward repairing and even growing artificial kidneys at some point.
