I hope you had a Happy Saint Patrick's Day, if you believe in that sort of thing, and I hope you are not ill from too much alcohol, the official drug of choice of Saint Patrick's Day. I don't judge, I mean, I like to drink and drunk, and if you want to get loaded because it's Saint Patrick's Day, or Tuesday, go for it. I just know what it feels like Later, after too much alcohol, so I'm just saying, I hope you feel OK today and that your liver is not trying to leave your body because you were trying to kill it with fun.

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"Whilst 'off the shelf' new livers are clearly still a long way off, this work gives a glimmer of hope that this is no longer just the stuff of science fiction." —Dr. Mark Wright, from Southampton University, reacting to news that a team of scientists from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center had grown a tiny version of a human liver from stem cells introduced into a three-demensional collagen framework. In the future, we'll be able to drink to our biomedically enhanced hearts' content. This is even better than self-regenerating livers! The first sign of cirrhosis, we'll just pop in a new one like we're [...]