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The Mount Sinai Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute has received a $5 million gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, pledged across five years.
Scientists in Minnesota are bioengineering pig livers in an effort to ease the national transplant shortage that sees over 100,000 people turned away each year.
The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now it’s semitranslucent, white tubes like branches on a tree showing through.This is a pig liver that s gradually being transformed to look a