Our livers contain many different types of immune cells. New research by the team of Prof. Charlotte Scott (VIB-UGent Center ...

Our livers contain many different types of immune cells. New research by the team of Prof. Charlotte Scott (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) and colleagues now reveals that a specific ...

The specific functions of these cells in the context of liver injury were however unclear. Do KCs adapt upon injury to help heal the liver or is this a function for LAMs? New work by the team of Prof.

Treatment may include surgery, a liver transplant, ablation therapy (a needle or probe is used to kill cancer cells), embolization therapy (cutting off blood supply to a tumor), oral targeted agents, ...

Occasionally, elevated liver enzymes require additional tests to find out what's going on. Changes in liver function can impact nearly every bodily system. If the liver is damaged or infected, it ...

The body produces millions of red blood cells each day in the bone marrow. They circulate around the body for about 120 days, then go to the liver and spleen, which destroy them and recycle their ...

According to precedent and due to his status, Yoon will probably be assigned a solitary cell, likely bigger and better appointed than the standard 6.56 square metre (71 square feet) single cells.

Reduces non-alcoholic fatty liver risk Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease occurs when there is extra build-up of fat in liver cells. It mostly affects people who are overweight, have diabetes or have ...

If excess fat is stored, free fatty acids can stress liver cells so that they don’t function well.” In his most recent research (about to be published), Prof Aithal found making food swaps ...

The rate of progression of fibrosis in an individual patient with chronic liver disease cannot be predicted with certainty. However, some general rules apply, as discussed below. 4. The precise ...

The embeddings from a model designed to understand the structure of DNA, for instance, could be fed into another program that predicts DNA function, cell type, or the effect of genetic mutations.