Vitamin E is an essential nutrient that plays a crucial role in maintaining overall health. It strengthens the immune system, ...

No doubt 2025 will usher in many more advances in CRISPR therapies, thanks to the FDA’s new Platform Technology Designation ...

A research team has identified the transcription factor Lhx2 (LIM homeobox protein 2) as a key regulator in hepatic stellate ...

Assessment of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis is crucial for the management of patients with chronic hepatitis B. The presence of at least moderate liver fibrosis is an important indication for antiviral ...

Researchers found that high fructose intake, especially from processed foods, is linked to metabolic dysfunction-associated ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) significantly increases the risk of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. While fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) analogs have shown ...

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 ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — The research found that heavy drinkers with either diabetes, high blood pressure or a high waist circumference are as much as 2.4 times more likely to develop advanced liver ...

Human uptake of microplastic particles (MPs) is causing increasing health concerns, and there is mounting pressure to evaluate the associated risks. While MPs can be ingested, breathed in, or drank in ...

As noted above, stellate cell activation is the central event in hepatic fibrosis. Activation consists of 2 major phases: (1) initiation (also called apreinflammatory stage) and (2) perpetuation ...

Of interest, this finding is not concordant with the previous bacteriology study of liver abscesses in Taiwan, where the prevalence of HBV infection is very high, which reported about 20% of ...

Dec. 10, 2024 — In a single IV injection, a gene therapy targeting cBIN1 can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the ...