There are reports that you will be now able to grow your own transplant liver in a lab in just five years.

A research was carried out in which a method was adopted to develop skin cells into stem cells and these cells were then transformed into liver cells.

From patients with various inherited liver diseases, the researchers used this technique to develop lab-grown liver cells. The researchers feel that from these findings, future research into diseases can be done.

They also observed that a number of characteristics were shared by the new liver cells with the liver cells of the patients.

For creating cell cultures that could be experimented on in the lab, this method looks likely to be an invaluable technique.

Researchers have stated that the research was not aimed at figuring out how to grow functional or efficient liver or transplantable cells in a lab, and both these cells are many years away.

The research that was funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council and the Biomedical Research Centre of the Cambridge Hospitals National Institute for Health Research was carried out by researchers from the University of Cambridge.