32-year-old Denton man grateful for kidney transplants during National Donate Life Month
For more than a decade, 32-year-old Angel Gutierrez watched life pass him by.
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For more than a decade, 32-year-old Angel Gutierrez watched life pass him by.
In a first, US scientists have developed an implantable device that could one day free kidney failure patients from undergoing the painful dialysis or having to take harsh drugs to suppress their immune system after a transplant.
Scientists have developed a pacemaker for kidney patients called the bioreactor. Here is what happened when they tested the bioreactor on pigs.
A group of scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) are developing a kidney cell bioreactor that could replace the need for dialysis or transplants in patients experiencing kidney failure.
“The bioartificial kidney will make treatment for kidney disease more effective and also much more tolerable and comfortable.”