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Surgeon who was convicted of assault for branding his initials on livers avoids being struck off

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Surgeon who was convicted of assault for branding his initials on livers of two patients during transplant operation avoids being struck off after blaming ‘work stress’ Simon Bramhall, 55, used argon beam machine to mark the organs in operations  Initials were discovered by change after donor organ failed a week after implant  Bramhall resigned from … Read more

Mini human livers grown from skin cells are transplanted into rats

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Miniature human livers grown from skin cells are successfully transplanted into rats for the first time – offering hope for ‘made-to-order’ organ replacements in the future Researchers took human skin cells and then reprogrammed them into stem cells They then managed to coax these new stem cells into converting into liver cells  The liver cells … Read more