For the first time, a person has received an experimental treatment that turns one of his lymph nodes into a functioning miniature liver. We won’t know for months whether this treatment works, but if it does, it could revolutionize the treatment of liver disease.
“This is a technology that has the potential to eliminate liver transplant waiting lists within just a few years,” he says. Michael Hufford at LyGenesis, a Pennsylvania biotech company.
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