Oregon Health & Science University researchers have figured out how to turn a mouse into a factory for human liver cells that can be used to test how pharmaceuticals are metabolised. The technique could soon become the gold standard not only for examining drug metabolism in the liver, which helps scientists determine a drug’s toxicity, but also can be used as a platform for testing new therapies against infectious diseases that attack the liver, such as hepatitis C and malaria
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