{"id":145528,"date":"2022-09-03T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/bizarre-new-clinical-trial-will-make-patients-grow-tiny-livers-inside-their-bodies"},"modified":"2022-09-03T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T18:23:04","slug":"bizarre-new-clinical-trial-will-make-patients-grow-tiny-livers-inside-their-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/bizarre-new-clinical-trial-will-make-patients-grow-tiny-livers-inside-their-bodies","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre new clinical trial will make patients grow tiny livers inside their bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mnCnkIJ53zY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists will soon begin a clinical trial for a new liver disease treatment. The experimental treatment will hopefully help treat end-stage liver disease and reduce liver transplants. To do this, it will harness the natural <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/science\/your-liver-is-always-less-three-years-old-or-younger\/\">regenerative power of the liver<\/a> by growing an entirely new liver within the patient. It won\u2019t just rely on one new liver, either. Instead, patients will grow multiple tiny livers in their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The process, which has shown success in mice, pigs, and dogs, involves injecting healthy liver cells into the patient\u2019s lymph nodes. The cells then multiply inside the patient\u2019s body, growing into tiny functioning versions of the larger organ. It\u2019s an intriguing treatment for <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/science\/weed-alcohol-interactions-live-damage\/\">liver disease<\/a>, and so far, it has improved liver function in animals that have received the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The clinical trial focuses on using the lymph nodes in the patients to create bioreactors that can grow the new livers. Not only would this give people dealing with liver disease more options, but it would also relieve pressure on an already overloaded transplant system. <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/medical\/mini-liver-clinical-trial-lygenesis\/\">New Atlas<\/a><\/em> reports that the participants will be divided into three primary groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists will soon begin a clinical trial for a new liver disease treatment. The experimental treatment will hopefully help treat end-stage liver disease and reduce liver transplants. To do this, it will harness the natural regenerative power of the liver by growing an entirely new liver within the patient. It won\u2019t just rely on one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}