{"id":32105,"date":"2016-11-21T05:46:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T13:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/synthetic-organs-were-one-step-closer-to-having-bioartificial-kidneys"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:02:11","slug":"synthetic-organs-were-one-step-closer-to-having-bioartificial-kidneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/synthetic-organs-were-one-step-closer-to-having-bioartificial-kidneys","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Organs: We\u2019re One Step Closer to Having Bioartificial Kidneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-organs-were-one-step-closer-to-having-bioartificial-kidneys.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers have succeeded in creating a \u201cliving membrane\u201d that can transport molecules from one side to the other, a key requirement for a functional bioartificial kidney. <\/li>\n<li>Their work could make dialysis or transplantation unnecessary for the millions of patients suffering from renal failure across the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new study being presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asn-online.org\/kidneyweek\/\">American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2016<\/a> at McCormick Place in Chicago is poised to revolutionize kidney failure treatment. Dutch researchers Dimitrios Stamatialis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utwente.nl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Twente<\/a>, Roos Masereeuw from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uu.nl\/en\" target=\"_blank\">University of Utrecht<\/a>, and their teams have successfully engineered a key requirement for a functional bioartificial kidney.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/synthetic-organs-were-one-step-closer-to-having-bioartificial-kidneys\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/synthetic-organs-were-one-step-closer-to...l-kidneys\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief: Researchers have succeeded in creating a \u201cliving membrane\u201d that can transport molecules from one side to the other, a key requirement for a functional bioartificial kidney. Their work could make dialysis or transplantation unnecessary for the millions of patients suffering from renal failure across the world. A new study being presented at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65732,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105\/revisions\/65732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}