txchnologist:

by Charles Q. Choi

Researchers have created implantable bioengineered kidneys made of living cells that have allowed rats to clean their blood and generate urine.

Their ultimate goal is to make new organs for patients suffering from kidney disease by using their own cells.

Kidneys filter wastes and liquids from the blood, and disorders afflicting them can be fatal. The most severe form of chronic kidney disease plagues nearly 1 million patients in the United States, and while blood dialysis machines can help them survive, the only cure is a kidney transplant.

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engineeringhistory:

In 1895 Edison experimented with Roentgen’s X-ray and from these experiments developed the fluoroscope.  Edison did not patent this invention but chose to leave this to public domain because of its universal need in medicine and surgery.

pleoros:

Filip Dujardin

Imagined Architecture

papress:

Leisure House, Mill Valley, California, 1953, from the book A-frame by Chad Randl.

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nevver:

Never quit

allaninnman:

Allan Innman, You Look Fabulous Dahling! oil on canvas, mounted to oval panel, 15.5 x 12 inches, 2013

conversemusic:

Converse’s music Tumblr is here. Let’s rage.

GIF by Matthias Brown

 

 

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flosvitae:

Rayyiu Radzi

sergebouvet:

Men of Rajasthan

Photos: Serge Bouvet
From: http://sergebouvet.com/galerie-2/vision-du-rajasthan/