Your liver is just under three years old - EurekAlert

The liver has a unique ability to regenerate after damage. However, it was unknown whether this ability decreases as we age. International scientists led by Dr. Olaf Bergmann at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) at TU Dresden used a techniq…

image: Human liver is composed of cells with different amounts of DNA. Most of the cells have just two copies of DNA, as the cell indicated with a white arrow. Some cells accumulate more sets of DNA,… [+7454 chars]

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