The connection between the human liver and the intestine is unique, and the “gut-liver axis” plays a vital role in regulating liver disease pathology. When homeostasis is disturbed, changes in dietary ...

Artificial liver support systems can simulate some functions of a person’s liver. They can act as a bridge treatment for people with liver diseases until they recover or receive a transplant.

For the first time, researchers have discovered that the accumulation of aged and failing cells, called senescent cells, in one diseased organ can spread to multiple healthy organs, causing them to ...

Researchers at MIT have developed injectable tissue grafts, dubbed “satellite livers,” that self-assemble inside the body ...

The liver is accountable for metabolizing most medications and is therefore one of the primary tissues affected by adverse drug reactions. Most classes of medicine can cause drug-induced liver injury ...

Creating a drug that might help treat or cure a health condition in humans is a long, complex process. After developing a candidate drug that shows potential—a process that, in and of itself, can take ...

"Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death... Above all, I must not play at God." — Hippocratic Oath. I've come to understand that there are two waiting lists for people who ...

A patient in China with hepatocellular carcinoma survived 171 days following xenotransplantation with a genetically modified ...