Part of the issue is that the benefit of taking insulin is so big--preventing blindness and organ damage--that even a small long-term cancer risk might be acceptable.
But the longer the fragile newborns spent in ventilation the more elevated was the presence of inflammatory proteins capable of causing organdamage and brain disorders, according to a report in the journal Cytokine.
The Oxford inventors say their machine allows the liver to recover from damage it has sustained and enables medical staff to test the viability of the organ to see whether it is likely to work before being transplanted into the patient.