Researchers engineer miniature human livers in the lab
Saturday, October 30, 2010 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have reached an early, but important, milestone in the quest to grow replacement livers in the lab. They are the first to use human liver cells to successfully engineer miniature livers that function at least in a laboratory setting like human livers. The next step is to see if the livers will continue to function after transplantation in an animal model.