Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

The first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human was undertaken by Chinese researchers last year, according to a new, peer-reviewed study. The patient was clinically brain ...

The majority of children and adults who receive the hepatitis B (hep B) virus vaccine do not need a booster. The six hepatitis B vaccines licensed for use in the United States afford lifelong ...

June 22, 2022 — An estimated one-quarter of adults in the U.S. have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an excess of fat in liver cells that can cause chronic inflammation and liver damage ...

This was a mighty challenge. The cells kept dying. Paleontologist Kyoko Hagino of Kochi University tried for twelve years until she finally cracked it with a cousin of the original organism.

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 ...

The 2005 finding of cells and blood vessels in dinosaur bone launched a systematic search for fossil remnants of biomolecules, creating innovations in methods and applications. Jasmina Wiemann is ...

AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) today revealed it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EsoBiotec, a Belgium-based biotechnology company pioneering in vivo cell therapies that has demonstrated ...

I have a liver disease, it was diagnosed in 2020. It has no specific symptoms. In this, my body cells are attacking the organ. So in my case, it’s sometimes lupus; it hits your kidneys or causes ...

NSW Health’s Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is notifying about 223 women who gave birth at Nepean Hospital’s Birth Unit between 2013 and 2024 of a potential low-risk hepatitis B ...