Implanted

King's College Hospital of London reported what they dub a "world first" breakthrough in medicine. An eight-month old boy was suffering from severe liver failure, the kind of failure that puts one on a lengthy waiting list, fingers-crossed for a donation. Instead, doctors took donated healthy liver cells and injected them directly into the young patient's failing liver. These injected cells acted as a stand-in liver by processing toxins and producing essential proteins.

 

As if this were not amazing enough, the injected liver cells were coated in a chemical that typically resides in algae. This chemical acted like armor on the injected cells and protected them from attack from the boy's immune system (since they were technically foreign invaders, albeit, waving white flags of biological peace). Algae, generally "aqua botanicals", hold significant promise in a variety of advancements within the world of medicine (they play well with stem cell research) as well more disparate fields like energy (fuel derived of algae may someday be a hot-at-the-pump item). And, on a symbiotic note, the first example of mutualism between a plant and a vertebrate was observed between salamanders and algae. The algae were observed living inside the salamander eggs giving oxygen to the embryo. Go Team Algae!

Whether or not the injection technique will be successful on others remains to be tested. King's intends on running a large clinical trial, the crux of its success hindering on anti-rejection of the injected cells.

Life sometimes can be implanted.
Implanted: --verb
  put or fixed firmly