Tapping mutations for liver regeneration

Certain mutations in patients with chronic liver disease may be helpful rather than harmful, and could be tapped for regenerative medicine, according to a team from the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern.

"We found a number of non-cancer related genes that seem to confer benefit to the liver tissue under chronic injury conditions," Hao Zhu, an associate professor at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, told BioCentury...