Niigata, Japan - The research group of Professor Kamimura in Niigata University have applied the novel, liver lobe-specific hydrodynamic delivery procedure to primates (baboons) for the first time.

The liver has a rare superpower among body organs - the ability to regenerate. It also keeps up its metabolic and toxin-removing work while regenerating, thanks to a subset of cells that expand their ...

Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and their colleagues have grown tiny human livers and successfully implanted them into rats. The livers began as stem cells that are cultivated into skin ...

Living liver donor transplantation is a surgery that removes a diseased liver from one individual and replaces it with a portion of a healthy liver from a living donor. The liver is able to regrow to ...

A wandering liver, ‘hepar mobilis’, is an extremely rare anatomical variant characterised by excessive movement of the liver within the abdominal cavity. This case report describes the incidental ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...

Address childhood obesity and diet, urge hepatologists as fatty liver, once an adult disease, is now affecting teenagers ...

The liver came from a genetically modified cloned pig with ten gene edits. Pexels For the first time, surgeons have grafted part of a liver from a genetically modified pig onto a human patient’s organ ...