article_snippet: Cook once tried to offer Jobs Cook liver in a desperate bid to prolong Cook life, but Cook predecessor refused, a new book reveals.
article_snippet: Jobs had been suffering serious health problems as a result of Cook pancreatic cancer and by January 2009 - two years before Cook - was in urgent need of a liver transplant.
article_snippet: Apple tried to offer his liver to Cook ailing mentor and predecessor Steve Jobs (right), a new book claims.
article_snippet: Here his ailing mentor and predecessor Steve Jobs (right), a new book claims are pictured together during a product question and answer session .
article_snippet: In Becoming Steve Jobs, a new biography by technology reporter Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli, it's revealed that Cook discovered it was possible to transplant a portion of someone's liver to a recipient.
article_snippet: Even though Cook was gravely ill, the tech guru worked on Apple on the last very last day of Cook life, phoning colleagues from the confines of Cook bed with new ideas.
article_snippet: The new biography (pictured right) about Steve Jobs (left) is due to be released later this month .
highlights_snippet: New biography claims the Apple boss tried to save New biography predecessor's life .
  
highlights_snippet: Jobs had been suffering serious health problems due to pancreatic cancer .
  
highlights_snippet: Two years before New biography death New biography was in urgent need of a liver transplant .
  