By recreating a fetal liver niche, FLOs show how liver and immune cells co-develop. Learn more about new groundbreaking ...

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

Scientists have developed a functional human hepatic tissue in a mouse host. The human hepatic tissue, in the mice, is composed of human hepatocytes and non-parenchymal cells (NPCs) including human ...

Your liver cells are forgetting how to do their jobs under dietary stress. Here's how that signals cancer risk years before ...

Microfluidic chips that mimic human livers are better at predicting whether a drug is toxic to the liver than conventional animal models used in preclinical experimentations, claims a new study from ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by L. Fäs, F. Wenz, M. Tu, K. Sanchez, N. Zapiórkowska-Blumer, H. Varga and K. Kaczmarska, which was presented at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2024 in ...

One of the challenges with liver disease is that it can be a silent threat. In its early stages, it may cause only vague ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can rest and ...