HHMI researchers solve a longstanding mystery about the origin of new cells in the liver. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have identified stem cells in the liver that give rise to ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

Our faculty participate actively in innovative research. Projects span from natural killer cell function, to tumor suppression by bitter melon, to participation in national liver pathology study ...

Immune cells called natural ... microenvironment indicates whether liver cancer will recur after surgery. Christian M. Schürch is in the Department of Pathology and Neuropathology, University ...

Researchers from Columbia University and the German Cancer Center have found that stellate cells—star-shaped liver cells long known as the main perpetrators in liver fibrosis—have a commanding role in ...

Primary liver cancer is cancer that started in the liver. There are 5 main types. The type depends on the type of cell that the cancer started in. Primary liver cancer is different to cancer that ...