Friday, 5 July 2013

Human Liver Tissue Grown From Stem Cells

Scientists in Japan have grown functioning human liver tissue from stem cells. They say their work shows it may be possible to harness the technology to alleviate the acute shortage of donor tissue for transplants. In a 3 July online issue of Nature, Takanori Takebe of the Yokohama City University (YCU) Graduate School of Medicine and colleagues, write: "To our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating the generation of a functional human organ from pluripotent stem cells... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..

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