Tonsil stem cells could someday help repair liver damage without surgery

24 September 2014

The liver provides critical functions, such as ridding the body of toxins. Its failure can be deadly, and there are few options for fixing it. But scientists now report a way to potentially inject stem cells from tonsils, a body part we don’t need, to repair damaged livers — all without surgery.
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