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By Fiona Macrae - DailyMail.co.uk Scientists have grown a liver in a laboratory, offering fresh hope to hundreds of thousands of patients with diseased and damaged organs.
It raises the prospect of those in need of transplants one day being offered livers that are ‘made to order’.
The first pieces of lab-grown livers could be used in hospitals within just five years, the researchers said.
A decellularised rat liver retaining its network of blood vessels, a technique grown by scientists which could be used to grow livers for human transplants.
Patches of artificial tissue could be used to repair livers damaged by injury, disease, alcohol abuse and paracetamol overdose.
Other possibilities include sections of artificial livers to keep those needing transplants alive – in much the same way as a dialysis machine is used to treat kidney failure.
HOW TO GROW OWN LIVER:
1.Donated but damaged liver bathed in detergent to remove the cells
2.All that remains is a 'scaffold' made of collagen and blood vessels.
3.Scaffold is seeded with healthy liver cells, made from the stem cells
created from the patient's skin.
4.The new liver is used to replace the patient's damaged one.
As it is made from their own cells, the body will not reject it.
