Photo of a person holding an implantable artificial kidney device. By Katzze.fritz (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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N. R. Gough, Bionic Organs with Silicon Nanopore Membranes. BioSerendipity (11 September 2017) https://www.bioserendipity.com/bionic-organs-with-silicon-nanopore-membranes//