Progress in Wearable and Implantable Kidneys

A KidneyX award-winning 30-lb portable HD machine may start animal testing in the next 18 months. A 3-way partnership has built a dialysate-free desktop HD machine as a first phase toward an implantable artificial kidney. And, a company from South Korea is also working on a small, wearable dialysis machine.

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