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 ...

As a hepatologist, Aleksander Krag has always sought to improve the prognosis of patients with liver disease, whom, he tells The Lancet, he often thinks of as a fictional patient he calls “Henry”. His ...

For decades, physicians and scientists thought metformin, the leading type 2 diabetes medication taken by millions worldwide, mainly targets the liver to suppress glucose production. But a new ...

Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center provide critical insight into how the brain and body work together to regulate food intake, energy use and metabolism, offering important new ...

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

This disruption has wide-ranging effects. When SIRT1 is suppressed, the liver shifts toward storing fat instead of burning it ...

Tanton, principal investigator of NASA’s Psyche mission, explains in her new book how lessons from interplanetary exploration ...

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 ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that an enzyme in the liver may partly explain sex differences in the body's ...

Following the success of the first volume of this Research Topic, which resulted in 17 published articles, this second edition continues to explore safe and ...