Liver epithelial cell lines are considered the cell culture counterpart of liver stem/progenitor cells (for a detailed review, see Grisham and Thorgeirsson [10]). Several laboratories, including ...

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and 2 Professor, Departments of Medicine, Cell Biology and Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Marion Bessin Liver Research Center ...

Further, how can scientists use this knowledge to improve regeneration of the liver, the only internal organ that can regenerate or repair itself after injury? "Over the past 15 to 20 years, ...

Researchers developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. The discovery is of great interest for cancer medicine because a change of identity of cells has come into focus as a ...

Due to the development of research methods since the early 21st century, it has been possible to demonstrate the existence of stem cells in nearly all organs. The development has led to the discovery ...

Scientists at EMBL and DKFZ have discovered how cells in the liver maintain their identity and avoid becoming tumour cells ...

Liver cells. Brain cells ... at fertility clinics and establishing the world's first human embryonic stem cell line, he and other scientists got a lot more than they bargained for.

They can also test how drugs might affect different organs such as the heart or the liver by programming stem cells to acquire properties of the organ the drugs are targeting. They can also be ...