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Scientists are seeking to make pig livers behave more like human livers so they can be transplanted into people. The new livers could help fill a big need for replacement organs.
The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now it’s semitranslucent, white tubes like branches on a tree showing through. This is a pig liver that's gradually being transformed to look and act like a human one, part…
To help people waiting for transplants, US scientists are exploring alternatives like bioengineering organs from animals.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now it's semitranslucent, white tubes like branches on a tree showing through.
It's all highly experimental, but manufacturer Miromatrix is making plans for first-step human testing — an experiment outside a patient's body, to see how well a bioengineered liver can filter blood.