By admin on Oct 31, 2010 in Health and Fitness
Scientists have managed to successfully engineer small functioning livers from human liver cells in a laboratory setting. They say this is the first step towards creating functioning livers for transplantation. They now plan to determine whether the livers will function properly when transplanted into an animal model. This research was presented by scientists from the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center at the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease meeting in Boston, and will also be published in the medical journal Hepatology…
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