Artificial Kidney News

Update: The wearable artificial kidney has passed the first FDA-approved proof-of-concept trial, Victor Gura, MD, FASN and other researchers announced at the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week 2015. Read more about the trial.

Researchers at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, and Stanford University say they have pinpointed the precise cellular signaling responsible for renal regeneration and exposing the multi-layered nature of kidney growth. The research, published in the journal Cell Reports, was conducted by principal investigators Dr. Benjamin Dekel of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine and Sheba Medical Center and Dr. Irving L. Weissman of Stanford University's School of Medicine, working with teams of researchers from both universities. 

University of Connecticut School of Engineering seniors have designed an artificial kidney using 3-D printing technology, which is an additive manufacturing method that can create complex parts, the University reported in a blog post. Additive manufacturing is the process of joining materials layer upon layer to produce an object from 3-D model data.

Las Vegas – The nation's progress toward meeting Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) objectives has been mixed when it comes to kidney disease, new research presented here at the National Kidney Foundation's 2014 Spring Clinical Meetings shows.

Jonathan Himmelfarb, MD, gave an update on the development of a wearable artificial kidney at the 2107 National Kidney foundation Spring Clinical Meetings

Researchers have successfully coaxed stem cells to become kidney tubular cells. The findings are published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The researchers said their findings are a significant advance toward one day using regenerative medicine, which involves rebuilding or repairing tissues and organs, to treat kidney failure, rather than the current method of dialysis or transplantation.