Your liver plays a major role in digestion, metabolism, and detoxification (eliminating harmful substances from your body). Liver enzymes help the liver perform these functions by speeding up ...

Brian Johnson, a.k.a. the Liver King, met and started dating his wife Barbara, a.k.a. the Liver Queen, in 2004 Skyler Trebel is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Before the vessel was approved, one F.D.A. medical reviewer pointed out that 37 of the 54 patients were not assessed in a safety check four months after getting the implant, with many dead or lost ...

Bile acids may re-circulate to the mother for detoxification, but if they don’t, they build up in the fetal liver, setting the stage for future problems. The findings suggest that early exposure ...

Bile acids may re-circulate to the mother for detoxification, but if they don't, they build up in the fetal liver, setting the stage for future problems. The findings suggest that early exposure ...

The liver, located in the upper right side of the abdomen, is the body’s largest organ and one of the most important. The liver performs hundreds of vital functions, including converting ...

They are at higher risk of dying from diseases of the heart and blood vessels, and the condition progresses faster to advanced liver disease. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver ...

This is when liver disease causes the blood vessels in the lungs to widen, lowering their ability to move oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. This leads to low blood oxygen levels.

This revised understanding of the fetal liver’s role provides new ... cells which create a niche that supports HSC expansion [26]. This relationship scales with the fractal branching patterns of ...

The ambitious idea of using CRISPR to cure genetic diseases before birth is one step closer to reality. Scientists reported on Monday that they used a form of the technology known as “base ...

However, the cellular and molecular determinants contributing to this fetal HSC niche remain largely unknown. Macrophages are the first differentiated hematopoietic cells found in the developing liver ...