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Researchers exploring how to ease a transplant shortage in the U.S. are using human-like pig livers to temporarily filter the blood of a liver that has failed. If that novel "liver assist" works, it would be a critical step toward eventually attempting a bioengineered organ transplant probably a kidney, they say.