Two more British children have needed a liver transplant after being sickened with a mysterious form of hepatitis, health chiefs revealed today. Ten youngsters have now undergone the critical procedure, with 114 now known to have been struck down by the peculiar illness. UK Health Security Agency bosses today called on parents to ‘be alert’ to the signs of the liver disease, which has... 

British scientists have developed a new stem cell technique for growing working liver cells which could eventually avoid the need for costly and risky liver transplants. A team of researchers led by the Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge used cutting-edge methods to correct a genetic mutation in stem cells derived from a patient’s skin biopsy, and then grew them into fresh liver...