Patients with kidney failure require dialysis regularly, which is an invasive and potentially risky treatment. But now researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have ...

The use of a bioartificial kidney could save the transplant population from a life of immunosuppression drugs and save costs, according to Shuvo Roy, PhD, professor of bioengineering at the University ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a recent editorial, Beatrice Concepcion, MD, wrote despite some challenges, transplantation “remains the ...

What if doctors could just print a kidney, using cells from the patient, instead of having to find a donor match and hope the patient's body doesn't reject the transplanted kidney?Related video above: ...

Iris Rivero, professor and head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, presented on “Bioartificial organs for transplantation - how far are we from clinical use?” during the “Plenary ...