Scientists have just come up with a lab-grown liver. Should we drink to that?
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Drink up with no worries....we can always have a brand new liver grown for us!  I'll take a strawberry margarita with an extra shot of cuervo :)
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Isn't that how people get liver spots?
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Our liver is an organ that produces an enzyme called Catalayse whose purpose is to break down Hydrogen Peroxide (a toxin).  Catalyse is a base, and Hydrogen Peroxide is an acid.  When you mix an acid with a base, as you know, you have a chemical reaction.  \n\nBoiling the liver releases the Catalayse from the tissue, freeing it up to react when it comes in contact with hydrogen peroxide.  The products of this reaction are Oxygen and Water -- two very non-toxic compounds our body can use.\n\nIt is noteworthy to add that alcohol will inhibit Catalayse from doing its job.  So excessive drinking will, of course, disrupt this entire process.
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Yep, too much alcohol consumption will pickle your liver, cause cirrhosis and in turn cause jaundice. You do have to be a very heavy drinker for a fairly long period of time for this to happen, unless your liver is already compromised and unhealthy.
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what about the forest conservation?\nproducts of? what livers there? give us a hint
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I agree completely with your sentiments. I'm a researcher working on HepC and we could use all the help we can get. I think there are two main answers to your question. 1) Prior to the summer of 2005 there was no way to grow HepC virus in tissue culture, so it was a difficult virus to study in the lab. The only animal model system was infection in chimpanzees. Thankfully there are now isolates that can be grown in the lab and research will progress much faster. 2) The clinical course of HepC infection is not as dramatic as some other diseases. It can be 20 years or more from the time you are infected to the time you develop symptoms. Additionally, since current therapy is only about 50% effective, expensive, and has uncomfortable side effects, there is not a whole lot of motivation to screen and treat those with assymptomatic infections. Here too we hope to see progress and there are drugs such as protease inibitors which are currently in clinical trials.
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"The liver is an astounding laboratory sustaining metabolism. Among its functions are purification of the blood, removing poisonous ammonia from proteins, detoxifying alcohol and drugs, controlling the body's sugar and cholesterol balance, making bile to digest fats, forming clotting factors for the blood and generating new blood cells. This myriad of functions makes clear why the liver is essential to life."
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Yes.\nFor now it is the only relatively accurate way to assess \ntoxicity of a new substance to living organism.\nIt should be controlled and kept to minimum but no other way, unless those that say "No" would agree to replace suffering animals.\nI simply can't understand people who think that it is wrong to experiment but OK to eat or take away they habitat, poison they environment but when it comes to using them for saving lives of others - no way.\nSimply visit hospital near u and see the suffering of those that cannot be saved - answer is clear (at least to me).
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liver and green leafy veg.
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It is Jaundice, caused by liver failure.
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it is the only organ that can reproduce itself in time. this is why people who abuse drugs and alcohol can still have a chance to live a good life. it does not take much to overwhel the liver one or two drinks. yet it can fix itself in time.
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There are several different ones you can do- liver/gall bladder, kidney, blood, lymph, and colon are the ones that come to mind right away.
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I would guess that it would be in the field of biochemistry. Perhaps cloning will be the next big thing, where we may be able to growth individual organs for transplants.
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there is no rule that says you are not allowed to drink in the military. Why did you have one anyway, knowing you would have a blood test????? :(, yeah it stays in your system until your liver breaks it down and flushes it out. drink heaps of water, should be gone by then . Good luck silly billy.
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Yeah as far as I know, a liver problem. Go to the doc!
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Question: Where are you going to find an authentic sample of his cells?\n\nNo, it's not ethical, but it would most certainly be done if the scientists thought they had an authentic viable sample. \n\nPeople would kill to get their hands on it. One to protect the sample from being debased by science, another in the belief it will heal or provide immortality, one to see if the clone would have perfect morality and miraculous powers, one to prevent the sample or clone from becoming an object of worship, one to keep Jesus a mystery only attestable to by faith, one to prevent the other from getting it... each would have thier own motivation.
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that is very interesting and usefull information and  would normally concern me if i had not already had a test done in the recent months due to elevated liver enzymes, i also had a blood transfusion at birth . before 1979 . thanks