As seen by the naked eye, the liver has four lobes: right lobe, left lobe, caudate lobe, and quadrate lobe. This lobe division is based on surface features. When looking at the front of the liver, the ...

Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians ...

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, and ...

A human model of immune-driven liver injury Some drugs that pass early safety testing can still cause idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (iDILI)—a rare immune reaction that can lead to severe ...

A high-resolution atlas of the healthy human liver has been assembled using gene-expression profiling and spatial mapping of cells in samples from living donors. The atlas reveals human-specific ...

Close-up of a human liver lobule highlighting GLUL (glutamine synthetase) + liver cells surrounding the central vein (grey), with intensity-based pseudocoloring of CD32b expression showing the highest ...