{"id":158276,"date":"2023-02-16T18:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-are-making-machines-wearable-and-implantable-to-act-as-kidneys"},"modified":"2023-02-16T18:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:23:03","slug":"scientists-are-making-machines-wearable-and-implantable-to-act-as-kidneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-are-making-machines-wearable-and-implantable-to-act-as-kidneys","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are making machines, wearable and implantable, to act as kidneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-making-machines-wearable-and-implantable-to-act-as-kidneys.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have just a static function. It has a bank of sensors that measure chemicals in the blood and feeds that information back to the device,\u201d Kurtz says.<\/p>\n<p>Other startups are getting in on the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/nephriabio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nephria Bio<\/a>, a spinout from the South Korean-based EOFlow, is working to develop a wearable dialysis device, akin to an insulin pump, that uses miniature cartridges with nanomaterial filters to clean blood (Harhay is a scientific advisor to Nephria). Ian Welsford, Nephria\u2019s co-founder and CTO, says that the device\u2019s design means that it can also be used to treat acute kidney injuries in resource-limited settings. These potentials have garnered interest and investment in artificial kidneys from the U.S. Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Burton is most interested in an implantable device, as that would give him the most freedom. Even having a regular outpatient procedure to change batteries or filters would be a minor inconvenience to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have just a static function. It has a bank of sensors that measure chemicals in the blood and feeds that information back to the device,\u201d Kurtz says. Other startups are getting in on the game. Nephria Bio, a spinout from the South Korean-based EOFlow, is working to develop a wearable dialysis device, akin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}