XI'AN, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese research team has successfully used a gene-edited pig liver in an extracorporeal perfusion therapy to treat a patient with acute liver failure, saving the patient's ...

Shift work and irregular eating patterns could affect liver function and disrupt its delicate circadian rhythm, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr. Meltem Weger from UQ's Institute ...

In TCM, the liver plays a vital role beyond its physiological functions as understood in Western medicine. It is responsible for regulating the flow of Qi (energy), blood storage, and emotional ...

The liver stands as a powerhouse organ, orchestrating a symphony of crucial functions essential for our overall health. It serves as the body’s primary detoxifier, meticulously removing harmful ...

This research 'holds promise for advancing studies on using pig livers to support or even replace human liver function,' says ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers from the German Cancer Research ...

Most of the enzymes involved in drug metabolism are present in the liver. This means the liver plays a key role in drug metabolism. Drug metabolism occurs when the body chemically alters drugs so it ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a previously unknown compensatory mechanism found in liver disease. If Kupffer cells (KCs), a specific kind of immune cells found in the liver, become impaired by ...

Liver cancer is one of the three deadliest cancers worldwide, and metabolic dysfunction-related cases have become ...

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 ...