New Livers For Everyone!

“Whilst ‘off the shelf’ new livers are clearly still a long way off, this work gives a glimmer of hope that this is no longer just the stuff of science fiction.”
 — Dr. Mark Wright, from Southampton University, reacting to news that a team of scientists from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center had grown a tiny version of a human liver from stem cells introduced into a three-demensional collagen framework. In the future, we’ll be able to drink to our biomedically enhanced hearts’ content. This is even better than self-regenerating livers! The first sign of cirrhosis, we’ll just pop in a new one like we’re changing the Brita filter.