[AnotherUnixGeek]

Dutch scientists and engineers have taken a big step towards developing a bionic kidney that could one day potentially replace the need for dialysis or transplantation.

I've been hearing about artificial organ development since the '80s, always with those three magic words "could one day". The actual progress in the 30+ years since then has been disappointing.

The kind of advances in longevity and health that Ray Kurzweil talks about will come eventually, but Moore's Law obviously doesn't apply.

[PJ-Comix]

key word here is “bioartificial.” They are using cells from patient’s own body.