Scientists have bred mice that are able to produce human liver cells, a breakthrough which could help in understanding liver diseases and the development and testing of new drugs to treat them.Liver cells from other animals often do not give a complete picture of how drugs are broken down by the body because the processes are species specific.
Human liver cells for experiments can be harvested from transplant livers but this is a scarce and unpredictable resource. Scientists often have to make do with poor-quality samples from cadavers.
According to the researchers, the humanised mouse liver cells work as if they were inside a person, producing all the same blood clotting factors and proteins. They added that the mouse cells could be used to test new therapies against infectious diseases that attack the liver, including hepatitis C and malaria.
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