Scientists at UC San Francisco are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or having to take harsh drugs to suppress their immune ...

The Kidney Project’s implantable bioartificial kidney, one that promises to free kidney disease patients from dialysis machines and transplant waiting lists, took another big step toward becoming ...

In a new biomedical breakthrough, a team of researchers at The Kidney Project in San Francisco has just earned a $650,000 reward for developing an artificial kidney that’s worked in preclinical trials ...

An implantable bioartificial kidney being developed by The Kidney Project – a nationwide collaboration led by Bangladeshi American Professor Shuvo Roy of U.C. San Francisco and Dr. William Fissell of ...

For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...

A simple blood test could reveal kidney disease earlier so more can be done to halt progression, while also allowing better ...

A $750,000 gift from the John and Marcia Goldman Foundation is spurring a UCSF-led effort to create the first implantable artificial kidney for patients with kidney failure. The new funds, which ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinical trials for the implantable artificial kidney haven’t started yet, but developers are already seeking ...

The use of iodinated contrast material may be less damaging to the kidneys than previously recorded, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center in New ...

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Projects focusing on family planning with the region’s African refugee community and kidney transplant access for Black Western New Yorkers have been awarded funding from the University at Buffalo ...

Regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have reached an early milestone in a long-term project that aims to build replacement kidneys in the lab to help solve the ...