Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive?
ell1e@leminal.space 5 days agoCan they really replace the liver and the kidney long term? That would be news to me.
Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive?
ell1e@leminal.space 5 days agoCan they really replace the liver and the kidney long term? That would be news to me.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
On constant dialysis that you never get unhooked from, I don’t see why not.
If you can just pipe nutrient-rich blood into the brain directly you can probably bypass the entire digestive system. That takes care of the liver, and with the only waste products coming from the body being whatever the brain produces, that should be a pretty light workload for an artificial kidney.
ell1e@leminal.space 5 days ago
I think dialysis damages the blood from what a web search suggests to me, so I doubt that would work.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Weird way to think about it, but you could partition up conjoined twins in this way when they share biological infrastructure.