First Synthetic Organ Transplant

[lionpaw]

Originally Posted by ScandalAndy

That's really awesome!! If you do check it out and find out anything else, would you be so kind as to post it here?

I sure will....At the time, the need for donor livers exceeded what was available....Since the liver is the only organ that is capable of regeneration they were trying to use the hepatocytes to grow onto(?) or was that within(?) the scaffolding....The difficulty was the material used for the scaffolding (I believe )that was problematic at that time...