Interesting article on development of an artificial liver

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28981937/

There's help for failing kidneys and failing hearts. But there's no

fix for a dying liver.

Doctors are trying to change that at a few hospitals around the

country, testing a machine packed with human liver cells as a last-

ditch chance to survive sudden liver failure.

The experiment is the latest in a decades-long quest for an artificial

liver, a device that could temporarily take over some of the liver's

jobs much like dialysis helps kidneys work and cardiac pumps squeeze a

flabby heart.