If this is successful, future volunteers will be tested with stronger doses and potentially allowed to develop six “mini-kidneys,” according to the MIT Technology Review.
The method involves injecting cells from the donor liver into the lymph nodes of patients with liver disease in the hope that it will lead to new organs. Donor livers are not suitable for transplantation, but can be a potentially life-saving treatment option for recipients. Researchers estimate that such a liver could help treat more than 75 people.
“Using these otherwise discarded organs to help patients… is revolutionary,” stem cell biologist Valerie Gwan-Evans, who was not involved in the study, told MIT Technology Review.
Source: Ferra
