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5 questions about Artificial Implantable Kidney to understand it better





Source - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/artificial-kidney-may-hit-market-by-end-of-decade/articleshow/56801777.cms

What is it?

An implantable kidney that works due to silicon microchips. These microchips will house living kidney cells that will grow on an around the microchips. These cells will then mimic the natural action of the kidney.

How does it work? 

It will work in the same way that a regular kidney works with the patients blood flow. The living kidney cells will create membrane that will filter your blood the way a normal kidney does. Also because it is out of reach from the bodys immune system response it cannot be rejected as with an organ transplant.

Who is making it?
It is being developed by University of California San Francisco (Shuvo Ray) and Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nephrology (William H Fissel).

 Fissell has been working on the implantable artificial kidney for more than a decade with University of California San Francisco bioengineer Shuvo Roy, PhD. In November 2015, the National Institutes of Health awarded a four-year, $6 million grant to the investigators to develop the implantable artificial kidney. In 2003, the project attracted its first NIH funding, and in 2012 the Food and Drug Administration selected the project for a fast-track approval program.  (Source - http://www.nephrologynews.com/implantable-artificial-kidney-project-making-progress/)

How will it help the patients?

It will help all the patients who are currently on dialysis and awaiting an organ transplant. Having an artificial kidney will eliminate dialysis and the dependency on an organ transplant. It will help CKD patients who are awaiting a transplant for are dependent on dialysis but eliminating the need for both and drastically reducing wait times and mortatlity rates.

When will it hit the market?

The human trail for the project starts in Dec 2017 with there being an estimate of it hitting the markets by 2020.
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