A new study reveals that while the molecular structure of liver metabolism remains intact during starvation, obesity disrupts ...

A surgical team at Virginia Commonwealth University recently performed the first fully robotic liver transplantation in the ...

Learn about essential foods for a healthy liver that promote detoxification and nutrient processing effectively.

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a ...

forming scar tissue that can change the liver's structure and lower its ability to heal and function properly. Several conditions and factors can cause liver fibrosis, including: Liver fibrosis ...

Chloe Yehwon Lee’s research could change the painkiller, known by the brand name Tylenol, for the better, ultimately reducing ...

The researchers identified the structure of this machine, the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), and 50 years since its discovery, have shown how it operates like the lock on a canal to transport ...

Researchers led by Keigo Morita and Shinya Kuroda of the University of Tokyo have revealed a temporal disruption in the metabolism of obese mice when adapting to starvation despite no significant ...

They used “a very elegant surgical technique, which allows the insertion of a (relatively small) xeno-liver with limited disruption to the anatomy of the existing liver,” commented Peter ...

"The liver from the pig functioned very well in ... Pigs are used because their organs are similar in size and structure to those in a human. But key genes need to be modified to reduce the ...

The implications for Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk seem pretty clear: The immediate removal of a rival for the massive revenues ...