When they recently opened it, windows were open and you could see people waiting inside...this must have distressed someone so all windows are blocked out now.
This is not that pleasant a topic, but I have found just about everyone I knows knows someone who has had a family member of some kind, close or a little further, who ended up needing Dialysis.
Let me just check on if there are any breakthroughs promised or something...HERE:
Dialysis breakthrough likely, kidney tissue grown from stem cells
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A group of Japanese scientific researchers have
made potential groundbreaking progress for those dependent on dialysis
by growing human kidney tissue from stem cells.
Even though a damaged human kidney is not easily
repairable, the scientists believe that their findings may be able to
aid with the restoration of diseased kidneys.
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the scientific researcher
spearheading the project, Kenji Osafune of Kyoto University, revealed
that his team had taken stem cells or 'blank slates' and molded them
into kidney-like tissue. He added that the stem cells or 'blank slates
were capable of being programmed' to become any type of cell.
The team of pioneers had progressed to the point of formulating intermediate mesoderm tissue from the slate or stem cells, a type of tissue developed midway to fully fledged organ tissue.
Said Osafune
whose research was published in the online science journal Nature
Communications, “There are about 200 types of cells in the human body,
but this tissue grows into only three types of cells, namely adrenal
cells, reproductive gland cells and kidney cells.” He added that 90
percent of the cultures utilized in their project had progressed into
‘viable mesoderm tissue’.
Osafune’s team had developed a section of a urinary tubule derived from kidney cells from a mouse embryo in their research. A urinary tubule is a winding tube of the vertebrate kidney in which urine is formed.
Osafune noted that the mesoderm tissue also known as embryonic
intermediary could be developed in human beings into ‘specific kidney
cells’ or artificially via a test tube.
He said that their research objective had not been to develop an entire
fully functional kidney, but that it would play a pivotal role in
teaching other researchers about mesoderm tissue development.
“I would say that we have arrived at the preliminary step on the road to the clinical level,” said Osafune.
Osafune added that their research could possibly make provision for 'a source of cells for regenerative therapy'.
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