Lab-grown human organs: Companies lack funding to meet expectations

December 9, 2007

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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