The device is much better at preservation than the current method, cooling livers with ice.
That would be another step on the way to growing new livers for people.
By contrast livers kept on ice have to be transplanted with 10-12 hours at most.
Gail Naughton grows livers in the laboratory, and human skin in a tiny purse.
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And the livers could be used to test how multiple drugs interact with each other.
As she expected, some livers released a lot of fat when cooked while others released little.
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In the fat-shedding livers, by contrast, she found high concentrations of a protein called fatty-acid-binding-protein 4.
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Corneas, unlike kidneys and livers, can be removed up to 24 hours after death.
Livers can remain viable for around 12 hours and kidneys for about 24 hours.
Watson says a biopsy is carried out on donated livers to check for any damage.
At present many donor livers are rejected for transplantation because they are damaged.
Hearts, lungs, kidneys, livers - transplant candidates would no longer need to wait for a donor organ.
Groups of fighters frequently cut out the hearts and livers of their dead victims and eat them.
For hearts, lungs, and livers, these precious donor organs tend to go to the youngest and healthiest patients.
Chefs have tried stand-in livers from other animals, but nothing comes close, says Mr. Cimarusti, the Providence chef.
Of those 90% of livers remaining in the region, over half go to the least medically urgent cases.
Or of those thousands of people in the world now who carry around transplanted hearts and livers and lungs.
Though the otters look perky, many carry traces of oil in their livers.
Put simply, the fat-retaining livers are healthy while the fat-shedding ones are not.
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The Cincinnati team obtained biopsies of livers of 14 infants with biliary atresia.
But the alternative is to implant livers, hearts, and skin taken from cows and pigs, or human cadavers into people.
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By extending the health of the livers to 24 hours, they estimate that twice as many could be available for transplants.
Right now preserving livers for transplant involves cooling them with an ice cold liquid, which slows cell metabolism and minimizes decay.
And the same technology used to grow skin can be used to grow livers and perhaps even hearts outside the body.
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Professor Bruce Drinkwater from Bristol even suggested it could one day be used to assemble human tissue (custom assembled livers, anyone?).
The side effects--fever, fatigue and anemia--are so bad that many patients forgo treatment, rolling the dice that their livers won't fail.
Lieberman and her colleagues injected huge amounts of RNAi into the mice, where it was taken up by cells in their livers.
The idea that livers, hearts, and skin would be grown in the laboratory may seem a little strange, even a touch macabre.
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Currently pig livers are sometimes considered for transplant when a patient is in liver failure and there is no human organ available.
The Genentech drug did not destroy patients' livers as some had feared, and it had some hints of efficacy in the trial.
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