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Making pig livers humanlike in quest to ease organ shortage

Por: Los Angeles Times Science December 28, 2022

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The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now it is 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 of scientists' long quest to ease the nation's transplant shortage by bioengineering replacement organs. The first step for workers in this... + full article



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