There could finally be a cure for liver cirrhosis, a disease that kills 25,000 people in the U.S. every year. Scientists in Japan said they've wiped out cirrhosis in rats by injecting their muscles with a human gene, reported CBS 2 News. The gene helped produce an abundance of a certain protein which regenerates the liver and cuts down cell death.
Researchers hope to get permission soon to test it on humans.
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