Is China’s man-made liver therapy a game-changer for millions battling liver failure

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• The stem cell-based bio-artificial liver has been approved for clinical trials to help liver patients remove toxins from their blood
  
• Promising technology could be on the verge of a breakthrough in commercial use, report says
  

Chinese authorities have given the green light for clinical trials of a stem cell-based artificial liver – a development that could help millions of people battling liver failure.

A Chinese team has created a bioreactor for a bio-artificial liver – a device outside the body that performs the liver’s job of detoxification and synthesising proteins and chemicals necessary for digestion and growth.

Blood flows through the bioreactor system, which uses a hollow fibre membrane to grow stem cells and essential substances, which are then introduced to a patient’s bloodstream and help them regenerate tissue and suppress liver damage caused by inflammation.

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