Volume 23, No 11, Nov 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 23 Issue 11, November 2013: 1242-1243

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Liver in a dish

Qiurong Ding¹ and Chad A Cowan¹

¹Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Bldg 153, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Correspondence: Chad A Cowan, Tel: +1-617-496-5222; Fax: +1-617-496-8351(ccowan@fas.harvard.edu)

There exists a worldwide shortage of donor livers for transplant. This may not pose a problem in the future, as Takebe et al. have recently grown functional “liver buds” from stem cells in a dish.

10.1038/cr.2013.117

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