Scientists from Uppsala University and several other research institutions have created a personalized human liver model that can significantly improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as ...

Liver disease is a major global health problem, causing over two million deaths worldwide each year. While animal models have ...

Researchers successfully implanted a genetically modified pig liver into a human, proving that such an organ can function for ...

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the investigation with no signs of rejection. For 10 days, the liver performed its basic ...

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 ...

This 3D animation shows an advanced liver organoid capable of forming its own internal blood vessels. Using a multilayered gel process, researchers coaxed vessel-forming sinusoidal cells (bright green ...

About 17 people die each day in the US waiting for an organ transplant — 6200 per year. And for the more than 10,000 Americans on the waiting list for a liver transplant, the future of medicine may ...

Overcoming acquired treatment resistance is one of the major challenges in the fight against cancer. While combination ...

Doctors have now used a gene-edited pig liver to keep a human alive, not as a thought experiment in a lab but as a real ...

New data highlight liver-encoded delivery of immune modulators as a strategy to mitigate age-related immune dysfunction.