Scientists have uncovered a new environmental culprit behind liver disease: tetrachloroethylene (PCE), a chemical used in dry ...

Did you know the liver can regenerate damaged cells and works according to its own clock? Discover more facts, including how daily habits affect its health. Your liver works quietly around the clock, ...

Our liver is the largest internal organ of the body, that performs as many as 500 essential functions! Yes, that is right. These include filtering blood, processing nutrients, producing bile, ...

A new human liver organoid microarray developed by Cincinnati Children’s and Roche recreates immune-driven liver injury in the lab. Built from patient-derived stem cells and immune cells, it ...

Even slight weight gain strains vital organs, increasing risks of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and liver damage. Excess abdominal fat triggers insulin resistance and inflammation, impacting kidney ...

For the first time, surgeons have grafted part of a liver from a genetically modified pig onto a human patient’s organ, marking another major advancement for transplant medicine. In a new paper ...

In November 2024, Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court issued an unusual ruling: senior Government officials had breached the public trust by drastically cutting taxes in 2019, setting off a “domino effect” that ...

It affects one in five people in the UK, and you might not even know you have it. But the good news is that fatty liver disease (which also goes by the less memorable name of metabolic ...

The science is unsettled, but researchers say there is cause for concern. Tiny plastic particles like these—called microplastics—are added to some exfoliating skincare gels and can get into the ...

Cloves are a fragrant spice made from the dried flowers of the clove tree. In the past, spices used to be worth their weight in gold, and cloves were no exception. Native to the Spice Islands near ...