Key points from article :
Human cells taken from a real liver used to construct a microfluidics-based tissue.
Designed to mimic the tiny and complex lobules that make up the liver.
Similar metabolic rate of genuine liver tissue and reacts in realistic way to drugs.
Growing organs using patient’s own cells avoids rejection risks and need for immunosuppressant drugs.
Initially likely to be used liver physiology/pathophysiology and hepatotoxicity studies.
The study was published in the Analytical Chemistry journal.
