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:

Sergej said...

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.

Neil Russell said...

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