"This thing that looks like a liver and functions like a liver came from somebody's skin cells."

Scientists grow mini human livers, transplant them into rats

Liver Farm

In a new study, doctors managed to grow functional, miniature human livers out of stem cells and tested them in living rats.

Scientists Grow Mini Human Livers, Transplant Them Into Rats

READ MORE: <a href="https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/lab-grown-mini-human-livers">HUMAN MINI-LIVERS PAVE THE WAY FOR MADE-TO-ORDER ORGAN TRANSPLANTS</a> [Inverse]

More on mini organs: <a href="https://futurism.com/neoscope/robots-grow-humanoid-organoids-stem-cells-faster-better">Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster and Better Than People</a>

Studies

"You can make a whole organ that can be functional from one cell of the skin."

“For the first time ever, I felt like my body was functioning like it should."

Health & Medicine

One Netherlands resident has experienced, first-hand, the potential that using lab-grown mini-organs has for life-saving medicine.

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