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How to grow human mini-livers in the lab to help solve liver disease

  • Written by Alejandro Soto-Gutiérrez, Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh
Obesity is one of the risk factors for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com

Creating a human liver in the lab may sound a little like the work of Dr. Frankenstein. But actually, it is far from it. In my lab we’ve figured out how to control the genes and functions of that lab-grown organ and are using this tool to...

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