They Had Better Figure Out This New Liver Thing Before I Use Up My Old One

There’s still a ways to go on this, but: “Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have taken the first steps toward building functional, transplantable livers. In a study in rats, published online today by Nature Medicine, the researchers took donor livers, gently stripped them of their cells while leaving other material intact, and then used the remaining structure as a scaffold on which to grow healthy liver cells. The result was a nearly complete organ that was transplanted into the rats and remained functional for up to eight hours.” That’s right, bitches: Self-regenerating livers! I will SO drink to that!