The connection between the human liver and the intestine is unique, and the “gut-liver axis” plays a vital role in regulating liver disease pathology. When homeostasis is disturbed, changes in dietary ...

Immunity is not a function most people particularly associate with the liver. But because of its connection to the gut, the liver is exposed to bacterial metabolites as few other organs are. And when ...

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in collaboration with Roche, have developed a next-generation ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CN Bio, a leading Organ-on-a-Chip (OOC) company that designs and manufactures single-and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), today announced the ...

The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...

While most people understand that excessive alcohol consumption harms the liver, the full extent of alcohol’s impact across the body remains largely underappreciated. The liquid that brings temporary ...

The liver is one of the vital internal organs of the body. Its job is to detoxify, break down fats, process nutrients and ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for ...

Gary Gray’s liver was failing. But doctors told him he might die waiting for a liver transplant, thanks to a policy change that disadvantaged Kansans and people from some other Southern and Midwestern ...

Milan Kinkhabwala, MD, Chief of Transplantation Surgery, Director of Abdominal Transplantation, Director of the Hepatobiliary Cancer Program, and Dr. Sarah Bellemare, Surgical Director of Live Donor ...