Division of labor within regenerating liver maintains metabolism, mouse study finds

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) The liver has a rare superpower among body organs - the ability to regenerate. It also keeps up its metabolic and toxin-removing work while regenerating, thanks to a subset of cells that expand their workload while the rest focus on multiplication, a University of Illinois study in mice found. Furthermore, the cells of the liver communicate with each other to coordinate regeneration activity, which progresses from the center to the periph...