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Plastic tubes can’t save the lives of liver failure patients, and a biotech’s stock price plummets

Another effort by Vital Therapies to transform plastic tubes into a lifesaving artificial liver ended in disappointment.

Another effort by Vital Therapies () to transform into a lifesaving artificial liver ended in disappointment Wednesday. And after this latest setback, the

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