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Conceptual overview of the general approach taken for engineering functional liver tissue. Healthy porcine livers would be harvested, decellularized, and sterilized to produce a whole liver ECM scaffold. This scaffold would then be seeded with a population of the patient's cells and cultured ex-vivo until the graft is suitable for transplantation.
