Chronic damage to the liver eventually creates a wound that never heals. The condition, fibrosis, gradually replaces normal liver cells with more and more scar tissue until the liver no longer works. Scientists have identified a drug that halts this unchecked accumulation of scar tissue in the liver

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Chronic damage to the liver eventually creates a wound that never heals. The condition, fibrosis, gradually replaces normal liver cells with more and more scar tissue until the liver no longer works. Scientists have identified a drug that halts this unchecked accumulation of scar tissue in the liver