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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 that s gradually being transformed to look a
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.