SpaceX provides a ride to the space station for ‘kidney on a chip’ and new solar arrays SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station today with more than 7,300 pounds of supplies and… Read More
Canadian biotech company Chinook Therapeutics raises $65M for rare kidney disease therapies Chinook Therapeutics, a Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company creating targeted therapies for kidney diseases, raised $65 million in a Series A… Read More
How a robotic system that grows human organoids can help save real live humans Good news, everybody: Robots can now create human mini-organs from stem cells. What could possibly go wrong? The method may… Read More
UW researchers’ ‘kidney on a chip’ will be prepped for space station experiment A stack of card-sized gizmos that test the effects of drugs, toxins and weightlessness on human kidney cells is due… Read More
UW Center for Dialysis Innovation gets $15M grant to improve dialysis technology Dialysis can be a life-saving treatment for the millions of people across the globe who face kidney failure. But despite the… Read More