Experimental treatment for liver failure patients before they get transplants

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SINGAPORE - Patients with liver failure could in future have a stopgap treatment, which slows down or even reverses disease progression, while waiting for a liver transplant.

The treatment involves injection of healthy liver cells created from human embryonic stem cells.

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