I mean, my gosh, artificial kidneys, even printable kidneys, that are coming.

Though the kidneys appear normal.

Tom's kidneys and liver are in bad shape.

His blood pressure's down. His kidneys are failing.

I hear they're taking your kidneys your lungs, your heart.

And then you can see these miniature kidneys that we've engineered.

He glared at us like we'd asked for both his kidneys

That started a kidney chain which enabled four people to receive kidneys.

And up will come mangroves, and sea turtles and your own kidneys.

They tried to engineer bacterias in such a way that they would act as your kidneys.

Well, I have to admit, I'm also somewhat embarrassed by that, because I still have two kidneys.

Narrator The tumor in Herbie's body presses against vital organs, such as the liver and kidneys. Doctor

But it was hard to do that when I was born with spina bifida and my kidneys and bladder weren't working.

And we developed techniques to dive inside and under the iceberg, such as heating pads on our kidneys with a battery that we dragged around, so that, as the blood flowed through our kidneys, it would get a little boost of warmth before going back into our bodies.

Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste.

So if you're feeling bad because you still have two kidneys as well, there's a way for you to get off the hook.

So one of the pioneers, for example, is Dr. Anthony Atala, and he has been working on layering cells to create body parts bladders, valves, kidneys.

And Dr. Kang's going to walk onstage right now, and we're actually going to show you one of these kidneys that we printed a little bit earlier today.

Again, fairly more complex organs, but by far, the most complex solid organs are actually the vascularized, highly vascularized, a lot of blood vessel supply, organs such as the heart, the liver, the kidneys.

You can do this same kind of chip technology for kidneys, for hearts, for muscles, all the places where you want to see whether a drug is going to be a problem, for the liver.

So the strategy here is this is actually a CT scan, an X ray and we go layer by layer, using computerized morphometric imaging analysis and 3D reconstruction to get right down to those patient's own kidneys.

Dumb ways to die ie ie so many dumb ways to die keep a rattle snake as a pet sell both your kidneys on the internet eat a tube of super glue i wonder what's this red button do

This triggers the pituitary gland, a pea sized gland found at the base of the brain, to release adrenocorticotropic hormone which then stimulates the adrenal gland sitting on top of the kidneys to release cortisol, the major stress hormone.

But if we look on other parts of our bodies where we don't directly interact with the environment our kidneys, our livers, our hearts there is no way to say, by just looking at these organs, where in the world they would come from.

Cause of death is this inoperable huge cancer that he had, retroperitoneal liposarcoma. His heart gave away, and his lungs failed, and his liver failed, and his kidneys failed. General failure overall, due to the effect of the cancer over the last one and a half years.

Well they do know, that if you look at other aquatic mammals, the fat that in most land mammals is deposited inside the body wall, around the kidneys and the intestines and so on, has started to migrate to the outside, and spread out in a layer inside the skin.

doctor, we have renal failure. we should have shut his kidneys down when he first came in. the power drain is too much. we're losing systolic pressure. what does that mean? anita, michael, wait outside. wilson, i think i have a right to be here, and i'd like to kn... outside now.

They said, You have two rare kidney diseases that are going to actually destroy your kidneys eventually, you have cancer like cells in your immune system that we need to start treatment right away, and you'll never be eligible for a kidney transplant, and you're not likely to live more than two or three years.