Science
,Medicine
New Way to Grow Human Liver Being Trialed
Well this is just down right extraordinary. It would be amazing if this works!
The approach is unusual: researchers injected healthy liver cells from a donor into a lymph node in the upper abdomen of the person with liver failure. The idea is that in several months, the cells will multiply and take over the lymph node to form a structure that can perform the blood-filtering duties of the person’s failing liver.
Source: Max Kozlov writing for Nature
Wednesday April 3, 2024