Benjamin Humphreys

Rare stem cells (in red) that give rise to scar-tissue secreting myofibroblast cells, here found near the blood vessels of a mouse kidney (in green). (Credit: Rafael Kramann, MD) Harvard team identifies rare stem cells that give rise to chronic tissue...

More than 15 years after the discovery of kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) by Joseph Bonventre, MD, PhD, researchers in the HSCI Kidney Disease Program—of which Bonventre is a member—have found that the molecule promotes the scar tissue formation...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have a new model for how the kidney repairs itself, a model that adds to a growing body of evidence that mature cells are far more plastic than had previously been imagined. After injury, mature kidney cells...