Shuvo Roy, PhD, professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and his colleagues are developing “an implantable, fully functional artificial kidney.” The Kidney Project is developing an ...

The use of a bioartificial kidney could save the transplant population from a life of immunosuppression drugs and save costs, according to Shuvo Roy, PhD, professor of bioengineering at the University ...

Scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or taking drugs to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a recent editorial, Beatrice Concepcion, MD, wrote despite some challenges, transplantation “remains the ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the American Society of Nephrology announced the winners of the $3.9 million Phase 1 of the KidneyX Artificial Kidney Prize this week. The ...

Figure 1. An implantable artificial kidney moves closer to reality. Four years ago, a joint effort was established between nephrologists and urologists at the Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological and ...

Nearly 90,000 patients in the United States are waiting for a lifesaving kidney transplant, yet only about 25,000 kidney transplants were performed last year. Thousands die each year while they wait.

Caption This is a model of the implantable bioartificial kidney shows the two-stage system. Thousands of nanoscale filters remove toxins from the blood, while a BioCartridge of renal tubule cells ...

The Kidney Project, a national effort to develop an implantable bio-artificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis, will announce a key milestone in a November 7, 2019 presentation at ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The first test in humans of a bioartificial kidney offers hope of the device's potential to save the lives of people with acute renal failure, researchers at the University of ...

Our most-read coverage of American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2023 highlighted discussions on the challenges of medication dose adjustments in chronic kidney disease, the impact of LGBTQ+ ...