Posted by
EFuller on Monday, October 30, 2006 7:35:08 PM
This just in from
Britian:
British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.
The technique that created the 'mini-liver', currently the size of a one pence piece, will be developed to create a full-size functioning liver.
Described as a 'Eureka moment' by the Newcastle University researchers, the tissue was created from blood taken from babies' umbilical cords just a few minutes after birth. [emphasis added]
Another advance that did not come from embryonic stem cell research.