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Kidney-on-a-chip offers clues to prevent kidney damage from essential drugs
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Kidney-on-a-chip offers clues to prevent kidney damage from essential drugs

by Adrienne Williamson , Medical Xpress A human kidney spheroid with embedded oxygen sensors (orange). Credit: A. Cohen et al., Science Translational Medicine (2021) There are 1.5 million cases of drug-induced kidney toxicity each year in the U.S. Among the usual suspects are cyclosporin and cisplatin, a pair of widely used chemotherapy drugs. Because both...