{"id":186789,"date":"2024-04-04T16:26:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/groundbreaking-trial-to-grow-mini-liver-from-patients-own-lymph-node"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:26:58","slug":"groundbreaking-trial-to-grow-mini-liver-from-patients-own-lymph-node","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/groundbreaking-trial-to-grow-mini-liver-from-patients-own-lymph-node","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking trial to grow \u2018mini liver\u2019 from patient\u2019s own lymph node"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groundbreaking-trial-to-grow-mini-liver-from-patients-own-lymph-node2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh biotech grows second liver in-body:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As per <em>Nature<\/em>, the experimental procedure was conducted in Houston on March 25. The report also states that the patient is \u201crecovering well\u201d after receiving the treatment. However, the formation of the new liver-like organ in the lymph node may take several months.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the individual will be kept on immunosuppressive drugs to prevent any initial rejection of the donor cells.<\/p>\n<p>The physicians will continue to monitor the patient\u2019s health closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh biotech grows second liver in-body: As per Nature, the experimental procedure was conducted in Houston on March 25. The report also states that the patient is \u201crecovering well\u201d after receiving the treatment. However, the formation of the new liver-like organ in the lymph node may take several months. Moreover, the individual will be kept [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186789","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}