Monday, April 15, 2013

Implantable, Bioengineered Rat Kidney

Recently, rat kidneys have been bioengineered at the Massachusetts General Hospital. These kidneys showed evidence that they we successfully filtering blood and producing urine. Unfortunately, these kidneys are showing significantly reduced effects from a normal, healthy kidney. Bioengineering human kidney based on one's own cells is in the near future.

The improvement from donated kidneys to bioengineered ones is that the body of the person receiving the kidney will not have to endure a life time of pills to make their body accept the kidney. The new kidney will be made up of their own cells.

This is a previously decellularized rat kidney after attempts to repopulate the organ's vascular system.











http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130414193433.htm

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  1. AnonymousApril 15, 2013 at 7:28 PM

    In the beginning of your post you stated that their was some problems with the kidneys. I was wondering what they were, so i read your article. The function of the kidneys being so significantly reduce, I think, would stall the engineering of human kidneys being able to be transplanted into humans. I think this experiment still has a lot of research and development before it can go into a human body.

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