In this procedure, patients are connected to a dialysis machine which acts as an artificial kidney to remove most of the urea and restore/maintain the water and ion balance of the blood.

Kidney transplantation is an alternative method for treating kidney failure and can save a patient's life. This procedure involves implanting a kidney from an organ donor into the patient’s body ...

To Alex Hughes, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering within Penn Engineering and in Cell and Developmental Biology within Penn Medicine, the kidney is a work of art. "I find the development of ...

A Japanese research team announced on Nov. 25 that it has successfully transplanted a pig kidney genetically modified for humans into a monke･･･ ...

The burden of chronic kidney disease Today, one in 10 people worldwide—more than 850 million in all, including more than one ...