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The mini-liver from the petri dish, with the three most important cell types of the liver: portal fibroblasts (magenta), cholangiocytes (green) and hepatocyte nuclei (blue).  Lei Yuan, Sagarika Dawka, Yohan Kim, Anke Liebert et al. / Nature (2025) / MPI-CBG

Mini livers from the petri dish to help patients

Over two million people die of liver disease every year. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden have now developed a three-dimensional liver model from real patient cells. The mini-liver can mimic important functions and should help to better understand diseases, test new drugs and develop personalized therapies. The study was published in Nature.