Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians ...

Scientists have published a ground-breaking study of the structure and function of a central protein in the liver: NTCP, a cellular-entry pathway for bile salts, but also for certain hepatitis viruses ...

The liver produces bile, which the intestine uses for digestion. For the transport of bile, the liver relies on a network of microscopic tubings, known as bile canaliculi, formed by liver cells called ...

Your liver performs over 500 essential functions every single day, yet most people remain completely unaware when this vital organ begins failing until damage reaches catastrophic levels that may be ...

A high-fat diet, especially one high in saturated fat and part of an overall high-calorie diet, can increase the risk of ...

Scientists have identified a hidden barrier that prevents immunotherapy from working against a rare liver cancer. Immunotherapy, which activates the body’s own immune system to kill cancer cells, has ...

Researchers report that pairing two known medicines reduced liver fibrosis in mice, offering a possible path toward scar reversal.

Though an essential gateway to the liver, NTCP had not been well described until now. Na+-taurocholate co-transporting polypeptide (NTCP) is a protein located exclusively in the membrane of liver ...