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02-17-2016, 09:06 PM
Artificial Kidney Made of Na**filters and Living Cells to Replace Dialysis
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At Vanderbilt University scientists are building an artificial kidney that they envision will one day will be a standard of care over dialysis. The device consists of a silicon na**tech**logy filter chip and embedded living kidney cells that would work together to mimic the functionality of a healthy kidney. The end result is expected to be about the size of a natural kidney, small e**ugh to be implantable and powered by the body’s own blood flow.
The filter component has tiny pores that can be individually shaped to perform a specific task. These filters would sit in a ******, each one performing a different filtration step. Between the filter slices there would be living kidney cells that perform tasks that the man made components are **t very good at, including reabsorption of nutrients and getting rid of accumulated waste.
Here’s video with Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Dr. William Fissell, the lead scientist on the research:
More from Vanderbilt… (http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/02/vu-inside-dr-william-fissell%E2%80%99s-artificial-kidney/)
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At Vanderbilt University scientists are building an artificial kidney that they envision will one day will be a standard of care over dialysis. The device consists of a silicon na**tech**logy filter chip and embedded living kidney cells that would work together to mimic the functionality of a healthy kidney. The end result is expected to be about the size of a natural kidney, small e**ugh to be implantable and powered by the body’s own blood flow.
The filter component has tiny pores that can be individually shaped to perform a specific task. These filters would sit in a ******, each one performing a different filtration step. Between the filter slices there would be living kidney cells that perform tasks that the man made components are **t very good at, including reabsorption of nutrients and getting rid of accumulated waste.
Here’s video with Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Dr. William Fissell, the lead scientist on the research:
More from Vanderbilt… (http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/02/vu-inside-dr-william-fissell%E2%80%99s-artificial-kidney/)
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