A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. This has been discovered by researchers from the ...

Scientists at EMBL and DKFZ have discovered how cells in the liver maintain their identity and avoid becoming tumour cells ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or inactivating genes. Precisely fixing disease-causing mutations is far more ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...

The liver is a large internal organ that is under your right ribs just beneath your right lung. It has two lobes (sections). The liver is made up mainly of cells called hepatocytes. It also has other ...

Since symptoms don’t appear until the condition worsens, the only way to detect fatty liver early is through blood tests (LFT ...

This suggests these cells may be useful as new therapeutic targets for various liver conditions. The work appears in the journal Immunity. Macrophages are specialized immune cells located in every ...

Cirrhosis is a condition in which scar tissue gradually replaces your healthy liver cells. It usually happens over a long period, often due to hepatitis, alcohol use disorder, or metabolic ...

Here, we report that TRAIL is constitutively expressed on murine natural killer (NK) cells in the liver and plays a substantial role in suppressing tumor metastasis. Freshly isolated NK cells ...

What Is an Inflamed Liver? Inflammation is the body's way to heal an injury or damaged cells. In the liver, this injury can be caused by many things, including an infection, toxins, or the buildup ...

People with cirrhosis are at an increased risk of liver cancer. Treatment may include surgery, a liver transplant, ablation therapy (a needle or probe is used to kill cancer cells), embolization ...