From growth hormones to cancer drugs, small molecules play a crucial role in our health. Monitoring them is essential to ...

Acquired DNA mutations found in the SERPINA1 gene can protect liver cells from damage in patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin ...

Early research shows a one-time gene therapy has potential for addressing both the liver and lung disease that patients with ...

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...

A recent study published on January 31, 2024, in Nature Aging introduces a potential new drug that could help. Scientists believe this drug can remove harmful “zombie” cells from the liver and slow ...

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection continues to pose a major global health threat. The virus evades immune responses and antiviral therapies due to the persistence of covalently closed circular ...

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 have now determined that ...

The result suggests that the protein made by the gene, known as Nwd1, and other molecules it interacts with could be ...

This month we will look at what the liver does, how to keep it healthy, and problems that happen when the liver becomes ...

Certain liver diseases may also have the same inflammatory ... Psoriasis may release inflammatory proteins into your body, which causes insulin resistance in the liver. This also causes your ...