Gene Therapy Regenerates Diseased Liver in Pigs (3 of 3) (VIDEO)

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Ultrasound-guided percutaneous portal vein injection of hepatocytes in pigs. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 27, 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.D. Hickey at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and colleagues was titled, 'Curative ex vivo liver-directed gene therapy in a pig model of hereditary tyrosinemia type 1.'

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Hickey <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)

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