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The American Society of Nephrology and HHS awarded $9.2 million to eight winners of the Artificial Kidney Prize Phase 2 Kidney Innovation Accelerator KidneyX Summit. “Kidney diseases are common, serious and deadly,” John R. Sedor, MD, FASN, steering committee chair of KidneyX, said in a press release. 

The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now it’s semitranslucent, white tubes like branches on a tree showing through.This is a pig liver thats gradually being transformed to look a

Scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones, part of a quest to ease the nation's organ shortage.

If tests on using a bioengineered organ as a human 'liver assist' work, it would be a critical step toward eventually attempting a bioengineered organ transplant – probably a kidney.

Scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones, part of a quest to ease the nations organ shortage. First workers in a suburban Minneapolis lab dissolve

Scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones, part of a quest to ease the nations organ shortage. First workers in a suburban Minneapolis lab dissolve

The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before.

A pig liver is gradually being transformed to look and act like a human one, part of scientists long quest to ease the nations transplant shortage by bioengineering replacement organs.

The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now it’s semitranslucent, white tubes like branches on a tree showing through. This is a pig liver that's gradually being transformed to look and act ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now its semitranslucent, white tubes like branches on a tree showing through.