Stem cells used to grow human liver on mouse
Patients suffering from liver failure could be injected with tiny replacement organs grown from their own stem cells after scientists succeeded in growing minature livers in mice.
Using three different types of stem cells, a group of researchers in Japan were able to grow human liver buds - which are normally found in developing embryos in the womb - for the first time.
They claim that by injecting thousands of these microscopic liver buds into the blood stream of patients they will become incorporated into their damaged liver and restore its function.
The treatment could be developed within the next ten years.
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