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Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

The human kidney is made up of about a million nephrons, the filtering units of this complex and highly vascular organ. Each nephron is composed of a highly coiled tubule, one end of which forms a cup ...