With all this talk about the use of stem cell research, I can’t help to be amazed at the ability to now create a functional liver. This is amazing. Scientists can now make organs out of cells. This is like taking mother nature right into your hands. I couldn’t imagine walking through the grocery store and picking up a functional human liver.
“The Japanese team, based at the Okohama City University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan, used iPS cells to make three different cell types that would normally combine in the natural formation of a human liver in a developing embryo – hepatic endoderm cells, mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial cells – and mixed them together to see if they would grow.
They found the cells did grow and began to form three-dimensional structures called “liver buds” – a collection of liver cells with the potential to develop into a full organ.”
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By the way, I love Huffington Post.
Jeffrey Fisher 