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Liver disease is the 12th -leading cause of death in the U. S. , chiefly because once it’s determined that a patient needs a new

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问题    Liver disease is the 12th -leading cause of death in the U. S. , chiefly because once it’s determined that a patient needs a new liver it’s very difficult to get one. Even in case where a suitable donor match is found, there’s no guarantee a transplant will be successful. But researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have taken a huge step toward building functioning livers in the lab, successfully transplanting culture-grown livers into rats.
   The livers aren’t grown from scratch, but rather within the infrastructure of a donor liver. The liver cells in the donor organ are washed out with a detergent that gently strips away the liver cells, leaving behind a biological scaffold of proteins and extracellular architecture that is very hard to duplicate synthetically.
   With all of that complicated infrastructure already in place, the researchers then seeded the scaffold (支架) with liver cells isolated from healthy livers, as well as some special endothelial cells to line the bold vessels. Once repopulated with healthy cells, these livers lived in culture for 10 days.
   The team also transplanted some two-day-old recellularized livers back into rats, where they continued to thrive for eight hours while connected into the rats’ vascular systems. However, the current method isn’t perfect and cannot seem to repopulate the blood vessels quite densely enough and the transplanted livers can’t keep functioning for more than about 24 hours (hence the eight-hour maximum for the rat transplant).
   But the initial successes are promising, and the team thinks they can overcome the blood vessel problem and get fully functioning livers into rats within two years. It still might be a decade before the tech hits the clinic, but if nothing goes horribly wrong — and especially if stem-cell research establishes a reliable way to create healthy liver cells from the very patients who need transplants — lab-generated livers that are perfect matches for their recipients could become a reality.  
The research team holds high hopes of______.
选项 A、creating lab-generated livers for patients within two years
B、the timetable for generating human livers in the lab
C、stem-cell research as the future of medicine
D、building a fully functioning liver into rats
答案D
解析 细节题。题干：研究团队对______报以很大希望。文章最后一段首句讲到，研究团队认为他们能在两年之内解决肝脏移植过程中遇到的血管问题，从而培养出功能完全正常的肝脏，并移植入老鼠体内。因此正确答案为D。
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