Artificial Kidney (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Artificial Kidney

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Using semiconductor fabrication techniques originally developed for the microelectronics industry, the bio-artificial kidney weds filters made of silicon with living human kidney cells cultured in the lab from samples harvested from deceased donors.

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