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New direction for the Kidney Research Institute
The KRI was established in 2008 as a collaboration between UW Medicine and the Northwest Kidney Centers with the mission to conduct research to improve the lives of people with kidney diseases.
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Mini-kidney tube structures have sugar receptors (red, upper left) and form outward-facing PKD cysts (center), which swell by taking in sugar (green, lower right).  Image courtesy of Benjamin Freedman Lab.
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