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		DennisP on Sept 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can an artificial kidney finally free patients fro... What hasn't existed for the past 20 years: an artificial kidney device that works in pigs for at least a week.

tomcam on Sept 7, 2023 [–]

I literally read about that, or something very like it, in Popular Science about 50 years ago. They expected it to be workable in about 5 years…

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