Nerdy Science Blog

Mouse Factory in this post doesn’t refer to Mickey Mouse or Disney Land.

Besides parthenogenesis (the virgin-birth) of egg cells, another exciting news in biological recently is that researchers from Oregon Health & Science University has turned a mouse into some human liver cells manufacturing factory.

This not only change the way people change drugs, but also make things easier and cheaper for researchers to conduct their researches. Other than that, who knows your new liver will be a mouse-grown-human-liver, just kidding. If researchers manage to grow human liver on mouse, they can do the same on human too.

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