Mouse With Human Liver May Lead to Cure for Hepatitis B and C

Scientists have successfully grown a human liver inside a mouse host. The scientists have created this testing subject in order to study a human liver infected with Hepatitis B or C.

Humans and chimpanzees are the only mammals susceptible to a number of fatal liver diseases making it virtually impossible for scientists to study the liver during drug trials and experimental treatmentmethods. Most human organs can be grown in a petri dish, but human hepatocytes are very difficult to culture and often do not grow at all.