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Kidney Organoids Effective against Polycystic Disease in Mice

Scientists grow ‘mini kidneys,’ reveals new insights into metabolic defects and potential therapy for polycystic kidney disease
“’Mini kidneys,’ or kidney [MORE]

Solid, Humanized Kidneys Grown in Pigs

In a first, solid humanized kidneys grown inside pigs
Researchers at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health and Wuyi University [MORE]

Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging

Ultrasound imaging- breaking new ground with ultrafast technology
“A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has solved [MORE]

Xenotransplant of Pig Kidney and Thymus

Xenotransplanted kidney-plus-thymus
“Surgeons at NYU Langone Medical Center tracked the activity of United Therapeutics’ UThymoKidney—a manufactured kidney that also contains a [MORE]

Implanted Device Warns of Transplant Rejection

Implant detects early kidney rejection
“A tiny bioelectronic device surgically placed upon a transplanted kidney can detect warning signs of organ [MORE]

Artificial Organs

Bioartificial Kidney, which was successfully implanted in a preclinical model
“Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) are currently [MORE]

Genetically Engineered Pig for Human Organ Transplant

Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation Performing Optimally After 32 Days in Human Body
“Surgeons at NYU Langone Health have transplanted a genetically engineered [MORE]

Self-Renewing Process in the Kidney

Researchers’ shows how kidney cells self-renew
“University of Texas at Dallas scientists have discovered a previously unknown “housekeeping” process in kidney [MORE]

The Organ Farm

The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs
“The entrepreneur explained her plans with the help of an architect’s rendering [MORE]

“Molecular Scissors” Change Blood Type from B to O for Organ Donations

 
Cambridge researchers change donor kidney blood type
University of Cambridge researchers “used a normothermic perfusion machine – a device which connects [MORE]

Dialysis Machine Museum

Kolff Rotating Drum Dialysis Machine
“Chronic hemodialysis only dates back to the 1940s. Before there was dialysis, chronic kidney disease was [MORE]

Bigger Cargo Carriers for Gene Therapy

Gene therapy delivered via  a high-capacity baculovirus
“Here we [University of Bristol, UK] exploit the unmatched heterologous DNA cargo capacity of [MORE]

Kidneys Pump as well as Filter

Kidney epithelial cells are active mechano-biological fluid pumps
“Here, using a microfluidic platform to recapitulate fluid transport activity of kidney cells, [MORE]

3D Kidney Tissue Grown in Lab (Mouse)

3D kidney generated from cultured mouse embryonic stem cells
“By focusing on an often-overlooked tissue type of organoid generation research, a [MORE]