Sentences with phrase «living dialysis machine»

Already, researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco, are collaborating on the construction of an implantable bio-artificial kidney that would contain microscopic filters and living kidney cells in a coffee - cup - size device that would work like a living dialysis machine inside the body — and provide most of the benefits of a kidney transplant.

While such tissue would not be suitable for implantation, it could, says Stroock, make a kind of personalized, living dialysis machine for the patient, as well as being a step toward the goal of producing replacement organs.

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Orwell thinks that from Shakespeare's writings it would be difficult to know that he had any religion» whereas in fact the placing of truth in the mouths of babes is one aspect of the Christian respect for all human life; that same profound feeling is what inspires us to protest loudly when health authorities take a mental defective off dialysis machine because they consider his «quality of life» too low, in defiance of Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount.

She plays «Maya,» a lone wolf CIA agent who sticks to her conviction that bin Laden is not in a cave in Afghanistan, hunched over a kidney dialysis machine, but is likely living in relatively open sight.

In partnership Boston Children's hospital, this project is helping to educate doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals around the world in the use of life support technologies such as ventilation and dialysis machines by giving them access to interactive medical simulators.