The liver stands as a powerhouse organ, orchestrating a symphony of crucial functions essential for our overall health. It serves as the body’s primary detoxifier, meticulously removing harmful ...
MIT researchers have developed an experimental mRNA-based therapy that restored key immune functions lost with age in mice.
Most of the enzymes involved in drug metabolism are present in the liver. This means the liver plays a key role in drug metabolism. Drug metabolism occurs when the body chemically alters drugs so it ...
Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central ...
A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty ...
Dr. Saurabh Sethi notes that most people believe sugar affects weight. However, it can strongly influence your liver.
A team of researchers has uncovered a previously unknown compensatory mechanism found in liver disease. If Kupffer cells (KCs), a specific kind of immune cells found in the liver, become impaired by ...
Your liver cells are forgetting how to do their jobs under dietary stress. Here's how that signals cancer risk years before tumors appear.