A volunteer with severe liver disease will soon undergo a procedure that could lead them ... That’s why Eric Lagasse and his colleagues at LyGenesis have taken this different approach.

Today, LyGenesis announced that an initial volunteer has received an injection of donor cells to turn one of their lymph nodes into a second liver. The procedure was carried out in Houston on ...

Senior author Eric Lagasse, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology at Pitt, first demonstrated a decade ago that healthy liver cells injected into the lymph nodes of mice with malfunctioning ...

But a surprising new technique under development by University of Pittsburgh stem cell researcher Eric Lagasse ... Most of the mice died within eight weeks, the usual prognosis for end-stage liver ...

Repurposing the spleens of mice helps ... serious liver disease often also have damaged spleens, which may make it difficult to transform them into liver-like organs, says Eric Lagasse at the ...

"It's all about location, location, location," said senior author Eric Lagasse ... decade ago, Lagasse noticed that if he injected healthy liver cells into the lymph nodes of a mouse, they ...

Hepatitis virus infection, alcoholic cirrhosis and other diseases can cause so much damage that liver transplantation is the only way to save the patient, noted senior investigator Eric Lagasse ...

location,” senior study author Eric Lagasse, Pharm.D., Ph.D., stated in a press release. “If hepatocytes get in the right spot and there is a need for liver functions, they will form an ...

“It’s all about location, location, location,” said senior author Eric Lagasse ... native liver, but they can’t and they die.” Nearly a decade ago, Lagasse noticed that if he injected healthy liver ...

"It's all about location, location, location," said senior author Eric Lagasse ... decade ago, Lagasse noticed that if he injected healthy liver cells into the lymph nodes of a mouse, they ...