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Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

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  1. amluto · · focus · HN ↗
    The lack of heart cancer might be more complex than the OP imagines:

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;blog-post&#x2F;no-heart-cancer-there-s-reason" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;blog-post&#x2F;no-heart-cancer-th...

    1. jaggederest · · focus · HN ↗
      Other animals do get heart cancer, which is fascinating. It&#x27;s still very uncommon compared to other cancers, but not virtually absent as it is in people.
    2. ByThyGrace · · focus · HN ↗
      Uhh thanks for sharing I guess? The third paragraph just nukes the idea of divulging anything, it&#x27;s obviously written entirely for specialists in the field (chromatin remodeling? the Nesprin-2 protein? mechanotransduction?). What I&#x27;m trying to say is no layperson would walk away from this article with a slight idea of why there&#x27;s no cancer in the heart.
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