Woman Denied Liver Transplant Due to Alcoholism—but She Hadn’t Had a Drop to Drink

Running Tests

Tamama and his team took Leland’s urine sample and put it on ice. After incubating the sample at 98.6 degrees to mimic the environment of the body, the researchers saw that Leland’s urine had “remarkably high levels of ethanol production.”

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