Americans who drink heavily are more than twice as likely to develop significant liver disease compared to 20 years ago, ...

Human organs-on-chips and organoids offer new alternatives to animals for drug development, but there is still a long way to ...

A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center may help explain why certain liver ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The first procedure in the world designed to treat a patient using a bioengineered external liver was recently performed by a team at Intermountain Medical Center.

Rice-derived recombinant human serum albumin as an alternative to human plasma for patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis: a randomised, double-blind, positive-controlled and non-inferiority ...

In our study, we used this technology on human liver organoids to generate a mitochondrial disease model. "We employed a clinic-grade technique to repair a mutation in the mitochondrial DNA of ...

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier?

Liver-on-a-chip technology represents an innovative advancement in biomedical research, allowing for the creation of microphysiological systems that mimic liver functions. These devices utilize human ...