A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. This has been discovered by researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Hector Institute für Translational ...

A Lifesaving Innovation in the Fight Against Acute Liver Failure A revolutionary medical breakthrough is offering new hope in ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...

HHMI researchers solve a longstanding mystery about the origin of new cells in the liver. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have identified stem cells in the liver that give rise to ...

A more recent approach is transplantation of mature liver cells, known as hepatocytes. “The problem is obtaining sufficient quantities of fully functioning hepatocytes,” says Ochiya.

The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the ...

they discovered that certain bile acids in the liver could affect the activity of cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells. The researchers identified several liver bile acids associated with ...

The researchers identified several liver bile acids associated ... LCA impaired T cell function by causing endoplasmic reticulum stress, wherein cells can no longer properly fold and modify ...

The firm will study its autologous cell therapy alone and in combination with Eisai's Lenvima in patients with hepatitis B-driven hepatocellular carcinoma.