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  "textContent": "If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew in the 1966 science fiction classic \"Fantastic Voyage\"—one of their first stops would no doubt be the liver. The unique structure of our largest internal organ comprises small, hexagonal functional units called lobules, each carrying out more than 500 functions simultaneously. Studies from the 1970s and 1980s revealed that liver cells divide these many tasks among themselves according to their location within each subunit; however, the technology available at the time provided only a blurred picture of this division of labor.",
  "title": "Genetic atlas reveals how human liver cells divide their labor"
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