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Monday, 1 November 2010

Liverettes

Scientists from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have managed to grow teeny livers in a laboratory.

The next step is to grow teeny onions to go with them

2 comments:

  1. I think that liver tissue is relatively unstructured, making livers a good first organ to grow using this technique: obtain the scaffolding, make sure the thing gets blood supply, and all you need is undifferentiated liver cells to fill it in. More structured organs will be a next step.

    And maybe there will be something to swap in once I've drunk my present liver into submission.

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  2. What Sergej said...that should definitely make it far more evenly grilled!

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