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Liposuction has long epitomized unbridled vanity. Now those who undergo the procedure can claim to be serving the public good. According to a paper published in the Public Library of Science by Gregorio Chazenbalk, of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues, fatty tissue extracted during liposuction may prove instrumental in a sort of stem-cell therapy.
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