Interspecies chimeric livers: A step closer to solving the problem of transplantable organ shortage?

'History of medicine tells us that procedures that were inconceivable yesterday, barely achievable today often become the routine of tomorrow'.1 When Dr. Thomas E. Starzl made this remarkable statement in 1982, he knew the medical, surgical, immunological, and even political challenges to perfor ming a liver transplantation. In the 1980s, liver transplantation was a barely achievable procedure. In 2018, we are living in Dr. Starzl's tomorrow, where the liver transplantation is a daily routine, not only in Europe2 or the United States. (Source: Journal of Hepatology)

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