Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a person's natural tendency is to reject that organ.

I don't understand why anyone wouldn't be an organ donor, because you don't need your organs after you die.

There really isn't an organ in the body that is safe from the effects of obesity - and the liver is a vital organ.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose.