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A shortage of donor organs mean many people die on waiting lists

Slimming down fatty livers in the lab could boost donor organ supply

6 March 2020

Donor livers are increasingly not being used for transplants because they have too much fat. Hooking them up to a machine for a crash treatment could solve that

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