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A team of doctors in 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: Liver cell created from subcutaneous fat - http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20070107TDY01003.htm

The world's first genome library specific to liver cancer has been completed, announced the Taiwan Institute of Biomedical Science (IBS).  614 sequences were identified as hepatocellular carcinoma-associated by contrasting cancerous and healthy genome data. When the DNA of 45 liver-cancer patients were inspected to verify disease loci, scientists found a 96.9 percent correlation of gene expression , affirming the validity of the genome bank: World's first liver genome library complete - http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/archives/taiwan/2007112/99786.htm

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