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Monday, June 14, 2010

Scientists grow laboratory liver, giving hope to millions with diseased organs | Mail Online

Scientists grow laboratory liver, giving hope to millions with diseased organs | Mail Online: "Scientists have grown a liver in a laboratory, offering fresh hope to hundreds of thousands of patients with diseased and damaged organs.

It raises the prospect of those in need of transplants one day being offered livers that are ‘made to order’.

The first pieces of lab-grown livers could be used in hospitals within just five years, the researchers said."

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