New research suggests restoring stellate cells to their healthy and protective state could simultaneously reduce liver scarring and improve liver function.

It was discovered that females had a “50% higher risk of developing cirrhosis,” scarring of the liver, and had a higher rate ...

The liver, the largest organ in the human body, plays a vital role in storing and metabolizing fat. However, excessive ...

The team successfully disrupted the virus’s ability to infect human liver cells in the laboratory using a chromatin-destabilizing molecule CBL137, which is already in clinical trials against cancer.

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