Making liver tissue in the lab for transplants and drug screening
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 11:05
in Health & Medicine
Engineered liver tissue could have a range of important uses, from transplants in patients suffering from the organ's failure to pharmaceutical testing. Now scientists report in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry the development of such a tissue, which closely mimics the liver's complicated microstructure and function more effectively than existing models.