Tonsil stem cells could someday help repair liver damage without surgery
Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 00:33
in Health & Medicine
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.