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Image credit: Louis Thomas. Descripton: Louis Thomas doing an impression of Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather while holding a liver sandwich. A man who doesn’t spend time frying innards in lard can never be a real man. Few offal dishes have quite the same reputation as the Sicilian spleen sandwich, “pani cà meusa”, the quintessential […]
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Image credits: Louis Thomas. Description: a pig’s liver in a bowl with a bottle of wine. Ancient Roman Emperors, before they were dulled by the influence of Christianity, used to have a haruspex to inspect the entrails of a sacrificed animal in order to predict the future. Checking for blemishes and the like. It would […]
Continue ReadingTechnology developed by Oxford University has allowed human livers to be kept ‘alive’ outside the body prior to transplant. Donated human livers connected to a new machine were successfully maintained at body temperature, allowing them to continue to function outside the body. Two patients have received transplanted livers successfully preserved using the machine at King’s […]
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