Organ transplants have been a lifesaving development and one of the shining success stories of modern medicine. But the shortage of organs for transplantation is an ongoing problem. One answer is to grow them artificially in a laboratory - a promising although controversial solution.

The hope is to put human liver cells into that structure to see if they can grow and multiply into a fully functioning human liver.

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