Team:NYMU-Taipei

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BacToKidney - Hope through Research.


Goal:

  • Use designer bacteria to replace a hemodialysis machine to remove (filter out) toxic waste for treating kidney failure.


Why is it an interesting problem?

  • Approximately 1.3 million people globally have chronic kidney failure that requires either renal transplantation or dialysis - for such patients, the established treatment is hemodialysis
  • The mortality rate of patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis remains unacceptably high.
  • An extremely high morbidity and a relatively low quality of life (due in part to a high level of dependence and unemployment) and high cost have also been observed.


How our project is divided:

News and Updates.
  • 2008-10-28: Gradually migrating the wiki pages to here.
  • 2008-08-12: The team page now displays us.
  • 2008-08-06: New Wikipage design put up!
  • 2008-08-01: Wikipage Online!