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Cool thing number two, you can grow any type of tissue out of them: brain, heart, liver, you get the picture, but out of your cells.
A drug for the heart can get metabolized in the liver, and some of the byproducts may be stored in the fat.
By combining tissue engineering techniques with microfluidics, the field is actually evolving towards just that, a model of the entire ecosystem of the body, complete with multiple organ systems to be able to test how a drug you might take for your blood pressure might affect your liver or an antidepressant might affect your heart.
My grandmother grew up in Glasgow, back in the 1920s and '30s when rickets was a real problem and cod liver oil was brought in.
And I as a child was fed cod liver oil by my grandmother.
You probably know, if you've been paying attention to some of the science literature that you can now take a skin cell and encourage it to become a liver cell or a heart cell or a kidney cell or a brain cell for any of us.
You can do this same kind of chip technology for kidneys, for hearts, for muscles, all the places where you want to see whether a drug is going to be a problem, for the liver.
He was tied to a rock, and an eagle would come every day to eat his liver.
But of course his liver would regenerate every day, and so day after day he was punished for eternity by the gods.
And liver will regenerate in this very nice way, but actually if we think of other tissues, like cartilage, for example, even the simplest nick and you're going to find it really difficult to regenerate your cartilage.
Does it get cleared by the liver?
Is it metabolized in the liver?
Does it cause heart attacks, kill people, liver failure?
The first is it challenges one of the orthodoxies that we learnt at medical school, or at least I did, admittedly last century, which is that the brain doesn't repair itself, unlike, say, the bone or the liver.
And human stem cells are these extraordinary but simple cells that can do two things: they can self-renew or make more of themselves, but they can also become specialized to make bone, liver or, crucially, nerve cells, maybe even the motor nerve cell or the myelin cell.
Thousands of patients every year lose their lives due to liver and oral cancer.
We've talked a little about the heart, and let's now talk about another function: the liver!
Like the liver and the kidneys, as I've said, cleaning the air.
She succumbs to the disease because it spreads to the lungs, liver, lymph nodes, brain, bone, where it becomes unresectable or untreatable.
So the ECM in my skin is different than the ECM in my liver, and the ECM in different parts of the same organ actually vary, so it's very difficult to be able to have a product that will react to the local extracellular matrix, which is exactly what we're trying to do.
So that means if you put it onto liver, it turns into something that looks like liver, and if you put it onto skin, it turns into something that looks just like skin.
Imagine a world where patients who suffer from liver failure can be saved with a new liver without having to wait for a donation or another human to die.
Although they very carefully preserved the stomach, the lungs, the liver, and so forth, they just mushed up the brain, drained it out through the nose, and threw it away, which makes sense, really, because what does a brain do for us anyway?
So, for example, what microbes you have in your gut determine whether particular painkillers are toxic to your liver.
We started using probiotic bacteria which are safe bacteria that have a health benefit, and found that when orally delivered to mice, these probiotics would selectively grow inside of liver tumors.
We went on to show that this technology could sensitively and specifically detect liver cancer, one that is challenging to detect otherwise.
Some lizards can regrow their tails, the humble salamander can completely regenerate their arm, and even us mere humans can regrow our liver after losing more than half of its original mass.
This was reproduced by Amy Wagers at Harvard a few years later, and others then showed that similar rejuvenating effects could be observed in the pancreas, the liver and the heart.
Already a universal donor: kidneys, corneas, liver, lungs, tissue, heart, veins, whatever.
Or, a routine blood test might count too many white cells or elevated liver enzymes.
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