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Harvard Stem Cell Institute Scientists at Boston Childrens Hospital have new evidence in mice that it may be possible to repair a chronically diseased liver by forcing mature liver cells to revert back to a stem cell-like state. Any Info ?

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Try this hsci.harvard.edu/news/new-m... which is in their own journal rather than the Daily Mail, lol!

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Thanks Bolly, I wouldn't use the Daily Mail for toilet tissue

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