X-Message-Number: 28642 From: Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:36:41 EST Subject: Liver grown The following article from an on-line science magazine says British researchers have grown a small artificial human liver from umbilical cord stem cells. They expect transplanteble versions in five years. Since one of our hopes is that if we can just preserve brains then the rest of the body can be regrown, this is good news and great progress. So far, only bladders have been grown (and maybe the cartiledge for ears etc.). But bladders are simply a membrane, while the liver does very complex chemical reactions. Let's hope this is as good as it sounds. Alan _http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061031_artif_liver.html_ (http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061031_artif_liver.html) Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28642