Sentences with phrase «human kidneys filter»
Human kidneys filter atrazine, and humans don't spend a lot of time swimming in pesticide - laced water, the way frogs do.
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And as newer versions of organs on chips get better at mimicking the function of real organs — a kidney's ability to filter waste from the bloodstream, for example — the devices themselves may find their way into humans, replacing or augmenting underperforming organs.
Us humans have about 1 million nephron filter units in each of our kidneys.
That is because, as I mentioned earlier, the kidneys of dogs, cats and humans have large, built - in reserves — many more individual filtering units (= nephrons) than are required to cleanse the blood.
In every day life, in humans and other animals, the kidneys function to filter blood.