Showing posts with label hepatology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hepatology. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

Human Liver in Lab

Whole miniature human livers about the size of plums have been grown in a laboratory environment from biological scaffolding of ferret livers stripped of native cells and replaced by human liver cells, a large step forward toward the goal of growing full-sized, personalized replacement livers for transplant patients.