Author Topic: World's First Artificial Human Liver Grown In Lab (Read 1493 times)

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.

ziggurat · « **Reply #1 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...

Tyball · « **Reply #2 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.

I'll drink to that!

Fracture · « **Reply #3 on:** November 01, 2006, 08:29:26 PM »

Yeah, this is good news for alcoholics everywhere.