United Kingdom – British scientists have grown the world’s first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.
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The technique that created the ‘mini-liver’, currently the size of a one pence piece, will be developed to create a full-size functioning liver. Grown by Newcastle University researchers, the tissue was created from blood taken from babies’ umbilical cords just a few minutes after birth.
As it stands, the mini organ can be used to test new drugs and preventing disasters.
Using lab-grown liver tissue would also reduce the number of animal experiments.
Within five years, pieces of artificial tissue could be used to repair livers damaged by injury, disease, alcohol abuse and paracetamol overdose. And then, in just 15 years’ time, entire liver transplants could take place using organs grown in a lab.
The development provides fresh hope for so many in dire need of a new liver each year.
The Christian anti-abortion Republicans are the ones who want you all to believe that viable stem cells only come from embryos. That’s their whole point that stem cell research is immoral because it’s from embryos that have been aborted. Check the congressional voting record, most votes against stem cell research are Republican votes.
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another proof that the cells that work are in the umbilical cord not in the embryo as the Dems would like you to think!
DONT VOTE FOR THE DEMS.