An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hopes that conditions like ...

Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center provide critical insight into how the brain and body work together to ...

It is not every day that someone tells you they have “a passion for liver disease, especially end-stage liver disease”. But that is exactly how Patrizia Burra, a Co-Chair of the second European ...

A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai overturns a longstanding assumption about how mRNA ...

Every day, the liver packages fat and releases it into the bloodstream to fuel the body, supplying energy to the heart, muscles, and other organs during the active hours of the day. The liver does not ...

Across the WHO European region, liver diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer are responsible for hundreds of deaths each ...

There is considerable evidence that microplastics and nanoplastics are present in the livers of humans, and wild animal ...

Due to limited evidence, the effect of liver support systems used alongside standard care compared with standard care alone in people with acute liver failure (rapid loss of liver function) is unclear ...

When the liver fails, toxins—such as ammonia—that should be filtered from the blood build up and reach the brain. The result ...

Scientists call the vast community that carries out this work the necrobiome – a shifting cast of microbes, insects, ...