The largest organ in the human body, the liver performs over 500 functions, including the digestion of proteins, mineral ...

Research by Takebe et al. demonstrated that vascularised liver organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) ...

Acute liver failure (ALF) represents a life-threatening condition marked by rapid deterioration of liver function, often ...

The liver is the body's control tower for metabolism, powering vital functions like converting nutrients to glucose, storing fat and breaking down toxins. Over a third of the world, however, is ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver ...

Rerouting a person’s blood through an external pig liver for even a few days could restore function and buy time, says transplant surgeon Abraham Shaked of the University of Pennsylvania, who ...