There are trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, and we are starting to learn more about the exact mechanisms ...

The liver is the body’s control tower for metabolism, powering vital functions like converting nutrients to glucose, storing ...

The liver, the largest internal organ in the human body, plays a crucial role in overall ... mineral storage, bile production, and blood filtration. The importance of keeping your liver healthy ...

While most people are aware that the liver filters out toxins, there's a lot more to this hardworking organ than you might ...

A genetically modified porcine liver has been successfully transplanted into a human subject ... viability for a period of 10 days within the body of a brain-dead patient, without eliciting ...

Scientists achieve breakthrough in liver research with mini organoids that grow a million-fold and stay functional for months.

Obesity and related metabolic disorders, such as hyperlipidemia and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, have become ...

In the short term, these multi-zonal liver organoids will help scientists shed new light on diseases including diabetes, drug-induced liver injury, alcohol-related liver disease, and viral hepatitis.

Bacteria naturally present in the human intestine (known as the gut microbiota) can transform cholesterol-derived bile acids into powerful metabolites that strengthen anti-cancer immunity by blocking ...

So, if scientists hope to create self-growing patches of liver organoid ... made from human stem cells. When these humanised organoids were transplanted into rodents whose own liver-bile duct ...

Scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and their collaborators have used human stem cells to ... into immunodeficient rats whose liver-bile duct systems had been ...