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I believe new liver cells come from both dividing mature hepatocytes, and hepatocyte stem cells. Cells can only divide a limited number of times, and they can't easily re-differentiate, so I would expect that while dividing mature hepatocytes would propagate the edit, they would eventually be replaced by cells that derived from stem cells that didn't get the edit.


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