Dr. Vadim Jucaud's lab at the Terasaki Institute has developed a vascularized liver tissueoid-on-a-chip (LToC) platform that recapitulates key structural, functional, and immunological features of ...

Researchers led by Xian-Yang Qin at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have developed a score that predicts the risk of liver cancer. Published in the journal Proceedings ...

Rowan University biology professor Natasha Shylo is exploring left-right asymmetry development with a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

There are Americans who are "obscenely obese and at the same time malnourished," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says. He blames ultraprocessed food.

A new type of tissue model that more accurately mimics the architecture of the liver could help develop drugs to treat MASLD.

It’s been a year since Kennedy was sworn in as health secretary. Alsobrooks has made it her mission to remove him ...

They manage to stabilize a patient with liver failure using a genetically modified pig liver. The organ was not transplanted ...

The burgeoning prevalence of obesity, affecting approximately one-third of adults, represents a profound challenge in modern health care, fostering co-morbidities such as diabetes, fatty liver, ...

Today there are injected medicines that block proteins produced by the PCSK9 and ANGPTL3 genes in the liver, thus helping the ...

A man lived for 171 days with a genetically modified pig liver, the greatest advance to date in xenotransplantation.

Scientists find heartburn drug omeprazole disrupts essential minerals in rats, with potential implications for millions of ...