New MIT research is revealing how long-term high-fat diets may prime liver cells for cancer by forcing them into survival ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day become a routine procedure. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical ...

Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central ...

Scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and their collaborators have used human stem cells to develop liver organoids that faithfully replicate key zones observed in human livers ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver ...

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure. The ...

An important new study in the Journal of Hepatology, published by Elsevier, reports the world's first auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient. The ...

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A new study warns that long-term keto diets may raise liver cancer risk by causing harmful changes in liver cells.