Sunday, January 07, 2007

Liver cell created from subcutaneous fat

Source: Daily Yomiuri Online / The Yomiuri Shimbun
Date: January 7, 2007

Summary:

A team of doctors at the National Cancer Center Research Institute and the International Medical Center of Japan has succeeded in creating a hepatic cell out of subcutaneous fat, a development that might lead to a regenerative medicine technique that would enable patients with hepatitis or cirrhosis to have their livers repaired.

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