Title:
Artificial Kidneys Are a Step Closer With This New Tech
Author:
Vanessa Bates Ramirez
Published:
SingularityHub, 3 June 2020
https://singularityhub.com/2020/06/03/artificial-kidneys-are-a-step-closer-with-this-new-tech/
From the article:
Scientists have struggled to come up with viable treatments for kidney disease and renal failure, and their complexity means kidneys are incredibly hard to synthetically recreate; each kidney contains around one million intricately-structured nephrons.
But new progress from chemical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas has brought functioning artificial kidneys one step closer. The researchers created a device that was able to filter blood in a way similar to biological nephrons. They described the device in a recent paper published in Nature Communications Materials.