A high-fat diet is one of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer. Now, a new study reveals a potential mechanism underlying this. The team found that, in response to a high-fat diet, ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by N. Lewis, D. Cole, A. Ward, J. Trigg and N. Bevan. Researchers are increasingly using 3D models, such as organoids, to generate ...

Bile ducts are pathways that carry hepatocyte-produced bile from the liver to the small intestine. In the human fetal liver, bile ducts are formed from bile duct epithelial cells surrounding the ...

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, or liver cancer and for development of future cell therapies.