February 27, 2007 — Researchers aiming to improve end-stage renal-disease (ESRD) outcomes are working on novel dialysis devices — such as a human nephron filter, wearable artificial kidney, and bionic ...

Los Angeles, CA - Advances in nanotechnology have made possible the first steps toward development of a wearable, and ultimately implantable, artificial kidney. The hope is that such a device would ...

Following kidney injury, repair can result in functional tissue becoming a patch of cells and disorganized extracellular matrix—a scar—or it can recapitulate the original tissue architecture through ...