The effectiveness of non-clinical drug safety predictions is enhanced by the adoption of three-dimensional (3D) cellular models. 3D bioprinting enables the generation of complex models with spatial ...

Engineers have created a new liver tissue model that allows them to trace the steps involved in liver regeneration more precisely than has been possible before. The human liver has amazing ...

The liver has a unique structure, especially at the level of individual cells. Hepatocytes, the main liver cells, release bile into tiny channels called bile canaliculi, which drain into the bile duct ...

Obesity has become a global epidemic. About one-third of the adult population in the United States is now obese. Internationally, the frequency of obesity has almost tripled since the 1970s. This ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LONDON — The Gender-Equity Model for Liver Allocation and its sodium-corrected variant were better predictors of ...

Scientists from Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) have successfully tested adeno-associated viral vector-based (AAV) gene therapies in whole human livers in the lab. The study, which is ...

Alcohol-associated liver disease is becoming a massive health and economic burden, but researchers at UC San Diego may have ...

After the recent implementation of acuity circle (AC)-based allocation policies, overall mortality and dropout rates among severely ill liver transplant candidates decreased; however, candidates with ...