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Laura Perin (left) and Stefano Da Sacco (Image courtesy of CHLA); featured image for Study offers new insights into how the most common kidney cancer starts in kids

Study offers new insights into how the most common kidney cancer starts in kids

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles found new clues to how disruption of the early process of kidney formation may be linked to the development of Wilms tumor — also known as …

Left to right: Roger De Filippo, MD, Stefano Da Sacco, PhD, Laura Perin, PhD (Image courtesy of CHLA); featured image for Podocyte protectors: NIH awards CHLA’s GOFARR Laboratory additional grants to combat chronic childhood kidney disease

Podocyte protectors: NIH awards CHLA’s GOFARR Laboratory additional grants to combat chronic childhood kidney disease

In children with progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD), loss of kidney function is for the most part irreversible. “The glomerulus is where the kidney filters the blood,” says Laura Perin, PhD, co-Director …

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Method developed by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles researchers automates brain cell mapping

Neuroscience graduate students at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have developed an automated method that could save time and work for laboratories around the country by streamlining the process of identifying and mapping …

Left to right: Roger De Filippo, MD, Stefano Da Sacco, PhD, Laura Perin, PhD; featured image for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles receives NIH awards for research into combating childhood kidney failure

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles receives NIH awards for research into combating childhood kidney failure

In children with progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD), loss of kidney function is mostly irreversible. The GOFARR Laboratory for Organ Regenerative Research and Cell Therapeutics in Urology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles …