Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central ...
Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers from the German Cancer Research ...
Scientists identify measurable cellular changes that flag higher cancer risk more than a decade before tumors appear. In A ...
Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...
Chronic liver disease gets worse when the liver's immune system stays overactive, resulting in ongoing inflammation and ...
New research from MIT and Harvard reveals that eating too many processed, high-fat foods may reprogram liver cells for cancer ...
A diet high in fat is one of the strongest contributors to liver cancer risk. New research from MIT sheds light on why this ...
MIT researchers have developed an experimental mRNA-based therapy that restored key immune functions lost with age in mice.
The majority of human illnesses is caused by damage of a single organ like the liver whose failure accounts for 2M deaths worldwide every year. Orthotopic transplants are the only curative therapy ...