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First this week scientists in Cambridge have developed a new technique to grow replacement bile ducts for patients

with liver disease.

Some children are born with a defective or a blocked bile duct and some adults develop diseases

affecting the bile duct system later in their life.

But in both cases the results can be lethal or require a transplant if the condition isn't treated.

Fotis San Paseyotes, whose liver specialist at Adambrook's Hospital, took me through what he and

his colleagues have discovered how to do.

To give you an idea of what the barducts are, the barducts form a network of tubes in the liver. Their purpose is to transfer bile, which is a toxic

product of liver metabolism, from the liver to the gut where it helps with digestion.

It's a waste disposal system effectively, and a waste disposal system doesn't sound very important,

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