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Nature 391, 128 (8 January 1998) | doi:10.1038/34303

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Artificial tissues

Philip Ball1

The homily that the human body is more than the sum of its parts becomes all too apparent when you have to assemble its components from scratch.The liver, for instance, is a highly structured organ, and its function is not reproduced by a culture of hepatocytes (liver cells) alone.

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