After 5 Years Of Trials, Doctors Create Human Liver From Scratch

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — In a dish sits a human liver.
Not removed from a person, but created from scratch.
“It’s not like ‘wahoo’ and the next morning you think, ‘ah, I’m gonna make a human liver,'” says Dr. Alejandro Soto-Gutiérrez of the Pittsburgh Liver Research Center.
It took five years of trial and error but using stem cells, genetic and tissue engineering, organ cultures and a team of experts in these areas, the researchers have come up w