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That last paragraph is different though, it’s using stem cells to make liver cells, not using the patients liver cells directly..

I have no idea why not, but my wife does a lot of work growing different cell types from stem cells, and my understanding is that that’s still like.. they think they are making cell types a, b or c, but it’s a lot of uncertainty. What they really do is convert the stem cells into cells that express m various markers/pass various tests that the “real” cell type also express.. but it’s really hard to know that it’s actually a 1-1 match.

Just yesterday she was lamenting they were making astrocyte cells, and many of the cells in the colony instead became.. something else, unclear what, maybe not even a cell type that exists in humans normally?

Either way: using healthy liver cells from a healthy liver would be a way to ensure you actually really have liver cells, and not something that just sorta duck-types as one




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