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there are some general principles: organs have resident “repair” cells that can sense injury and aging. But the idiosyncrasies of repair in each organ suggest that the individual cellular Band-Aids were cobbled together and remain unique to every organ. To understand injury and repair, then, we have to do it organ by organ and cell by cell.
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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