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were performed last year in the US, while thousands more patients remained in limbo. Others dropped off the waitlist because they got too sick — and an estimated Now, a UK-based biotech company aims to make liver transplants — and the long waitlists for them — a thing of the past.
is testing potential therapies for chronic liver disease at a cutting-edge lab in NYC that keeps donated human livers on life support. “We have technologists, we have scientists,” Dr. Quin Wills, Ochre’s co-founder and CEO, told The Post. “We have surgeons keeping these human livers alive so we can study how to repair them and regenerate them.” While often overshadowed by heart disease and cancer, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis is a leading cause of death that killsWhat actually happens to your body on the top of Mt. Everest — as teen goes viral while struggling to breatheThe only definitive cure for end-stage liver disease is a liver transplant, but supply is limited. Despite the long waits, some donated livers are destined for the trash. “Maybe they couldn’t match them to a donor on time, couldn’t get them out on time,” Wills explained. “And if the donor consents for their organs to be used for research, we’re able to … take the livers.”The work starts at the cellular level in Oxford, where Ochre is headquartered. “In the UK, it’s more about human cells that we use … to build the basic blocks of the organ,” Wills said. “And in Taiwan, we’ve set up a clinical network where if you have surgery in some of the Taiwanese hospitals and you consent, we’re able to take a small biopsy from your liver. Each one of those biopsies can be turned into about 50 little, mini, micro livers that we then study in the lab.” The approaches that Ochre is studying include stopping liver cells from dying, improving scarring and actually regenerating livers within the human body as part of a partnership with German pharma Boehringer Ingelheim.When the team feels confident it’s nailed the basics, the drug candidate is tested on a liver in the NYC lab, which relocated on Tuesday from start-up space to much larger digs at the Alexandria Center for Life Science. Ochre has the capacity to keep a few livers alive at the same time, usually for five days. The tissue is cultured for another five days to evaluate how the therapies would work.Wills is most optimistic about the technique of preventing cell death to address early fibrosis. Dying liver cells drive harmful inflammation that fuels chronic liver disease.“It is ground-changing,” Wills said. “There is nothing else like this out there where we’re able to directly study human organ in clinical trials before clinical trials, almost re-engineering human organs, learning to do it on a machine before we do it inside a human body.” Pumpkin spice, who? Studies show this fall fave could help with bathroom woes — users call it ‘magic’The Tylenol scare is a reminder: We’re leaving people in pain with too few optionsVividseats: Official Ticketing Partner of New York PostGayle King posts selfie with Fox News' Jesse Watters — prompting liberal meltdown Are you one of the millions set to receive student loan forgiveness under new Trump deal? Here's who qualifiesElizabeth Hurley, 60, shares her ‘secret to flattering bikini pics’ while posing in mint green swimsuitCourtesy of Ochre Bio
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