This Company Is Growing Mini Livers Inside People to Fight Liver Disease

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This Company Is Growing Mini Livers Inside People to Fight Liver Disease

Growing a substitute liver inside a human body sounds like science fiction. Yet a patient with severe liver damage just received an injection that could grow an additional “mini liver” directly inside their body. If all goes well, it’ll take up the failing liver’s job of filtering toxins from the blood. For people with end-stage liver disease, a transplant is the only solution. But matching donor organs are hard to come by. Across the globe, two…