Kidney failure affects millions worldwide, and the number keeps rising. Each year, the global population of patients with end ...

A research team has developed a compact peritoneal dialysis device that can be utilized as a portable artificial kidney. This ...

A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

[5,6,7] Although the idea of a wearable artificial kidney (WAK) is not new, it is only the advent of nanotechnology and miniaturization that has made the vital qualities of efficiency and safety ...

If this peritoneal dialysis device is commercialized as a portable system, it is expected to significantly improve the ...

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In it a membrane of cellophane performs many of the main functions of the natural kidney. In addition to its clinical usefulness it is an excellent tool for studying certain physiological processes ...

They mimic glomerular filtration and drive essential metabolic, endocrinologic, and immunologic kidney functions. Researchers creating artificial organ devices are preclinically investigating methods ...

Kidney failure affects millions worldwide ... “This is the first time nanotechnology has been applied this successfully to artificial organs. It’s rewarding to think this might help dialysis ...