Family medicine specialist Dr Chow Suet Yin explains the many functions of this organ and how we can protect its healthy function.

Liver organoids with proper blood vessel networks have been successfully produced, as reported by researchers from Institute ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day become a routine procedure. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical ...

This built-in backup system means that if one part fails, another often steps in to carry the load — a marvel of nature often overlooked ...

The human body always needs tissues to grow and repair and for that protein is needed. Mutton liver has a lot of high-quality protein.

Still, plenty of people claim that a good detox will help set you right after days of bad eating, struggling with insulin ...

Scientists have observed these tiny particles in the intestine, in the liver… and even in the brain. Experts have evidence that microplastics can cause DNA damage ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

It can be hard to know what supplements to take as there is a lot of mixed information out there. L-carnitine is among the ...

Fatty liver is a common disease among people nowadays. Primarily affecting heavy drinkers, it is now among the most common liver disorders. What makes this disease more alarming is its silent ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said.