Bhatia has been able to grow the virus in a healthy liver cell, which she hopes will help lead to better treatment and, perhaps, a vaccine.

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In related news, researcher Shinya Yamanaka in Japan has turned mouse skin cells into cells that are indistinguishable from the embryonic kind--meaning, that they can conceivably be turned into heart cells, liver cells or just about any other kind of cell scientists want to study or, eventually, use as a therapy.

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She'd like to isolate the signals the liver cells get from neighboring cells and perhaps eliminate the need for other cell types.

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Islet cell cancer tends to spread to the surrounding lymph nodes, stomach, small intestine and liver.

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