This is the color of a healthy human liver.
This option provides the patient with a healthy liver from a donor.
It takes a healthy liver about 1 hour to break down and remove 1 unit of alcohol.
Surgeons say the procedure may also provide healthier livers than those that patients get from cadavers.
It takes roughly 90 minutes for a healthy liver to metabolize a single ounce, approximately one hour per standard unit.
Outside experts said the drug represented a promising advance, but some cautioned that the patients in the trial had fairly healthy livers.
In the past, doctors have simply discarded the healthy liver of an intestine-liver transplant recipient or sent it to a lab for study.
Since no one can survive without a liver, surgeons are now dependent on donors who have died but have healthy livers.
See a picture of a healthy liver compared to a liver with cirrhosis .
Wouldn't it have been easier to redevelop a healthy liver, using the biofeedback machines and a suitable program?