By disturbing the body's equilibrium, anabolic steroids can potentially cause damage to many of the body's major organs, particularly the liver, which has to deal with breaking down the compound.

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Using such huge amounts of RNAi could be dangerous in people, and she and her colleagues picked the liver particularly because it would be easy to get the RNAi into the organ.

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And it added in one case, a woman using black cohosh needed a liver transplantation after a particularly severe reaction.

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Here, the focus is on studying the genetics of diseases that particularly afflict the Chinese population, such as hepatocellular carcinoma, a form of liver cancer.

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