New clues on how lipid emulsions prevent liver disease in preterm babies
Credit: National Human Genome Research Institute. Infants born prematurely may require parenteral or intravenous nutrition to provide the necessary nourishment, ...
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Lab-grown miniature human livers successfully transplanted in rats
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, June 2, 2020 - Using skin cells from human volunteers, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School ...
The AGA Research Foundation provides over $2 million in funding to promising researchers
The AGA Research Foundation funded 17 awards in the 2020 awards cycleCredit: American Gastroenterological Association Bethesda, MD (May 27, 2020) ...
New model shows how cells that cause liver cancer are created
Scientists show in-vivo and in-vitro how liver cancer stem cells are born, solving a central scientific mystery in this fieldCredit: ...
Additional genetic cause for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease discovered
Credit: DIfE In Germany about 18 million people suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver. The causes of this disease are manifold ...
Chemicals often found in consumer products could lead to obesity and fatty liver diseases
While poor nutrition and lack of exercise contribute to obesity, exposure to these compounds could trigger lifelong susceptibility to weight ...
Liver cancer: Awareness of hepatitis D must be raised
Credit: DR Of all the hepatitis viruses, D is the most poorly known. This small virus, which can only infect ...
Researchers develop new drugs for treating polycystic hepatorena
The project was carried out by UPV/EHU, Biodonostia and IkerbasqueCredit: UPV/EHU Polycystic hepatorenal diseases are hereditary, genetic disorders characterised by ...
BioIVT introduces high-purity Kupffer cells to support drug discovery and development for liver diseases and help predict adverse drug reactions
Dysregulation of the Kupffer cell response contributes to liver diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), ...
New COVID-19 guidance for gastroenterologists
AGA has published new evidence-based recommendations citing that GI symptoms are not as common in COVID-19 as previously estimatedCredit: American ...
Death rates from prostate cancer predicted to decline overall in EU but rise in Poland
Lung and pancreatic cancer death rates continue to rise in womenCredit: Annals of Oncology Death rates from prostate cancer are ...
New study indicates exercise can help prevent liver cancer
Exercise retards development of liver cancer by direct effects independent of weight control in an animal model that closely resembles ...
AGA releases official guidance for patients with IBD during the COVID-19 pandemic
Many patients with IBD who develop COVID-19 should stop their medicationCredit: American Gastroenterology Association Bethesda, Maryland (April 10, 2020) -- ...
UC San Diego to advance stem cell therapies in new space station lab
UC San Diego and Space Tango receive NASA award to develop first dedicated stem cell research laboratory within the International ...
Advanced liver disease patients and transplant recipients need specific care during COVID-19
EASL and ESCMID have issued a Position Paper, providing recommendations for clinicians caring for patients with liver diseases during the ...
New 3D cultured cells mimic the progress of NASH
Credit: T. Usui / TUAT A research team led by scientists from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, ...
Princeton researchers identify factors essential for chronic hepatitis B infection
Virus uses these factors to establish itself permanently in the liverCredit: Image courtesy of Lei Wei and Alexander Ploss, Princeton ...
Closing in on liver fibrosis: Detailing the fibrosis process at unprecedented resolution
A new technology to investigate the cellular processes as they change during fibrosis developmentCredit: SDU The human liver carries out ...
Levels of sBTLA proteins as potential marker of overall survival of liver cancer patients
Credit: Osaka City University In the 2020 February 25 issue of Scientific Reports, a research group from the Department of ...
Discovering what makes durian stink
First evidence of rare amino acid in plantsCredit: Martin Steinhaus Freising/Germany - Researchers at the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology ...
