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美国每年大约有3万人死于目前医学难以救治的肝脏疾病.因肝脏移植而获得新生的病人最多只有15,000人左右.病人数字方面的这一巨大差距正是哈佛大学和麻省理工学院科学家及肝病专家们正在研究肝脏十分惊人的再生能力的原因.肝脏在严重丧失后的再生能力比人类或哺乳动物的任何其它器官都要强.在动物实验中,几乎可以切除肝脏的四分之三,而它又能很快地再生到正常大小.然后,在同样明显和神秘的过程中这种生长停止.人体肝脏也具有很强的再生和控制能力,在一个月之内可以再生很大的一部分.
Approximately 30,000 people in the United States die every year from currently unhealthy liver diseases in medicine in the United States, with up to about 15,000 newborns getting liver transplants.The huge gap in patient numbers is precisely what Harvard and MIT scientists and Hepatologists are studying the very alarming regenerative capacity of the liver, whose ability to regenerate after severe loss is greater than that of any other organism in humans or mammals. In animal experiments, almost three-quarters of the liver can be resected, It regenerates quickly to its normal size, and then ceases to grow in the same obvious and mysterious way.The human liver also has a strong regenerative and control ability to regenerate a large fraction within a month.