Source: The Telegraph
Date: May 29, 2005
Summary:
British doctors have made a "significant" breakthrough using patients' own stem cells to regrow their livers, raising the possibility of it replacing organ transplants in future. Specialists have perfected a technique that could cure people with liver disease. Importantly it used the patients' own stem cells, rather than the controversial practice of cells harvested from aborted embryos. Stem cells were extracted from the blood of the first five human volunteers, and injected into their livers. Early results show that inside the patients' livers, the cells have already started to grow.
