Miromatrix hits clinical milestone on path to scale organ transplants
Miromatrix Medical Inc. marked a major milestone this month as it completed the first ever implant of a bioengineered liver into a large animal.
The Eden Prairie-based biotech company engineers whole organs through a process known as decellurization and recellurization. Put simply, the cells are rinsed out of a pig liver or kidney. Then, human cells are added into the blank organ in a bioreactor.
The transplant was part of a preclinical study with researchers at Mayo Clinic to assess the functionality…
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