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Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have taken a major step in growing healthy liver organs to be used eventually as transplants in liver disease patients.
The scientists have published their results in the journal Nature Medicine; the news was covered by MIT Technology Review today.
The research involves removing the cells of healthy donor livers and using the remaining parts of the organ – including the blood vessel system – as the structure on which to seed new liver cells. The research has been carried out in rats, with a liver transplanted without event and functioning for up to eight hours.
A few issues remain before the research can be tested in human clinical trials. Read MIT Technology Review’s coverage of the prospect of growing liver organs.
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