Why is it possible to perform a liver transplant using just a small part of a donor’s liver, but for other organs (kidney, heart, etc) the donor would have to donate the whole organ?
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Your liver main deal is to eat up all the poison in your blood and get rid of it.
With a job like that it ended up needing to be really good at dying and growing back. So it’s special among organs that it is really good at not having much structure and growing back from any part left. So you can just throw any part in someone and it will try hard to turn back into a liver
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