Last night, doctors in Britain said that seriously ill patients, who have been waiting to undergo a transplant operation, will be capable of growing their own livers in a matter of five years.

The announcement that has been made has arrived after a yardstick study was carried out, in which, researchers from Cambridge University transformed skin from sufferers’ arms into liver cells.

If scaled up, the method could well be utilized to generate full sized livers.

The finding has been published in the Journal of Clinical investigation, which has arrived in the middle of mounting rates of liver disease cases, and therefore it is likely to speed up the hunt for novel drugs to tackle the disease.

Almost 600 transplants are conducted on a yearly basis however a few patients will certainly give in while they keep waiting for an apt donor.

In order to speed up the investigation for finding new treatments, patches of diseased cells could be brought into use to test hundreds of drugs.

Over one million Britons are with liver diseases and 16,000 lose their lives each year.

This condition claims more lives of people in Britain in comparison to combined occurrence of diabetes and traffic accidents.