{"id":237250,"date":"2026-05-15T22:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/cell-therapy-offers-real-hope-for-people-living-with-cirrhosis"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:25:31","slug":"cell-therapy-offers-real-hope-for-people-living-with-cirrhosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/cell-therapy-offers-real-hope-for-people-living-with-cirrhosis","title":{"rendered":"Cell therapy offers \u2018real hope\u2019 for people living with cirrhosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-therapy-offers-real-hope-for-people-living-with-cirrhosis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pioneering treatment which could slow or reverse liver failure and offer a potential alternative to liver transplants has shown positive results in a medical trial.<\/p>\n<p>70% of end-stage liver disease patients who were treated with macrophage cell therapy in the <a href=\"https:\/\/britishlivertrust.org.uk\/match\/\">MATCH trial<\/a> did not need a liver transplant after four years, compared with just 40% who didn\u2019t receive the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The cell therapy takes immune cells from the patients\u2019 blood and turns them into mature macrophages \u2013 a white blood cell \u2013 which is then re-injected back into the patient. The macrophages travel to the liver, where they break down scar tissue, reduce inflammation, and encourage the growth of healthy liver cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneering treatment which could slow or reverse liver failure and offer a potential alternative to liver transplants has shown positive results in a medical trial. 70% of end-stage liver disease patients who were treated with macrophage cell therapy in the MATCH trial did not need a liver transplant after four years, compared with just [\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-237250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237250","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=237250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}