3-D Printing: The Nephron’s Proximal Tube
December 6, 2016 | Terry Sharrer
With some 93,000 people now waiting—in some cases up to ten years—for a live kidney transplant, the need for an artificial kidney is both profound and urgent. While that creation may also be a decade in coming, researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have taken an important step—using 3-D printing, they were able to make a functional convoluted proximal tube of the kidney’s nephrons which is where natural dialysis takes place. This piece shows exactly how that was done. MORE WITH VIDEO
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