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A Regenerated Kidney that Works (Transplanted in Rats)

Bioengineered Rat Kidney
A few years ago, Doris Taylor at the University of Minnesota recreated a rat’s beating heart on [MORE]

Close to Growing Functional Kidneys

Embryonic kidney cells fail to develop into functional renal tissue because they require a blood supply to mature.  To [MORE]

Progress Toward Kidney Regeneration

Kidney Structures
With tens of thousands of patients on waiting lists for kidney transplants, success in creating kidneys from pig [MORE]

Hypertension Device Market

In most cases, hypertensives control their blood pressure with medications, but for about one third of those patients, drugs [MORE]

Medical Breakthroughs on the Horizon

Ion Chip
From a survey of experts, the Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry newsletter identified several coming breakthrough technologies in [MORE]

Tissue Cultured Blood Vessels

Tissue Engineering
In a clinical trial in Poland, three dialysis patients had allogenic tissue-engineered vascular grafts implanted to perform as [MORE]

Liver’s Role in Hypertension

For over a half century, physiologists have known that blood pressure is controlled by some mechanism outside the brain.  [MORE]

Zapping Down Hypertension

With a procedure similar to angioplasty, clinical investigators in Melbourne, Australia, threaded a catheter from the groin to a [MORE]