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Title: World's First Artificial Human Liver Grown In Lab
Post by: Foxy Brown on November 01, 2006, 06:42:06 PM

The world's first artificial liver has been grown from stem cells by British scientists. The resulting "mini-liver" is the size of a small coin; the same technique will be further developed to create a full-size liver. (http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061031_artif_liver.html)

Title: World's First Artificial Human Liver Grown In Lab
Post by: ziggurat on November 01, 2006, 07:25:25 PM

small coin sized liver is enough for a rat.. yeah, as the article suggest, this is good because it can replace the traditional rat killing massacre for the sake of human medical research... hope they can grow bones out from test tube too...

Title: World's First Artificial Human Liver Grown In Lab
Post by: Tyball on November 01, 2006, 07:37:11 PM

Quote from: Foxy Brown;226497

The world's first artificial liver has been grown from stem cells by British scientists. The resulting "mini-liver" is the size of a small coin; the same technique will be further developed to create a full-size liver. (http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061031_artif_liver.html)

I'll drink to that! XD

Title: World's First Artificial Human Liver Grown In Lab
Post by: Fracture on November 01, 2006, 08:29:26 PM

Yeah, this is good news for alcoholics everywhere.