Transplanted liver cells show promise for Hemophilia Cure

I've been late in linking to this important and hopeful bit of news.

The meat of the find:

In the study, Gupta's team worked with a mouse model of hemophilia. They transplanted healthy liver endothelial cells into the livers of these mice, according to the report in the Feb. 14 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Three months after transplanting the cells, the number of healthy cells had increased and were producing factor VIII in amounts sufficient to cure their hemophilia, the researchers found.

Given these results, researchers can start to focus on where factor VIII is made in the human body and how things can go wrong with its production, Gupta said. (emphasis mine)