{"id":232533,"date":"2026-03-04T01:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/injectable-satellite-livers-could-offer-an-alternative-to-liver-transplantation"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:32:46","slug":"injectable-satellite-livers-could-offer-an-alternative-to-liver-transplantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/injectable-satellite-livers-could-offer-an-alternative-to-liver-transplantation","title":{"rendered":"Injectable \u2018satellite livers\u2019 could offer an alternative to liver transplantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/injectable-satellite-livers-could-offer-an-alternative-to-liver-transplantation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for a liver transplant, but there are not enough donated organs for all of those patients. Additionally, many people with liver failure aren\u2019t eligible for a transplant if they are not healthy enough to tolerate the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>To help those patients, MIT engineers have developed \u201cmini livers\u201d that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of the failing liver.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study in mice, the researchers showed that these injected liver cells could remain viable in the body for at least two months, and they were able to generate many of the enzymes and other proteins that the liver produces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for a liver transplant, but there are not enough donated organs for all of those patients. Additionally, many people with liver failure aren\u2019t eligible for a transplant if they are not healthy enough to tolerate the surgery. To help those patients, [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232533","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=232533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}