Lab-grown human organs: Companies lack funding to meet expectations
| December 9, 2007 |  View for printing |
By manipulating cells in a laboratory, Stanford University researchers have created livers that closely resemble those of rats and pigs.
Executives at Cerco Medical of San Francisco have fabricated human islet cells into a patch the size of a business card that they believe one day could be attached to a diabetic's pancreas to make insulin.
By Steve Johnson Mercury News
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