“The solution we are exploring is to transplant liver progenitor cells.” So far, Ochiya and his team have shown that mouse and rat hepatocytes extracted from livers, even damaged ...

There is a pressing need for environmentally friendly meat production technologies to tackle the increasing global food ...

Peking University-led researchers have modified an existing treatment for liver disease that does not cause itchiness, a ...

In this study, the research group proposed a new system in which the growth-factor secreting rat liver cells would be co-cultured or cultured together with the modified cyanobacteria, and the ...

Liver cells. Brain cells. Skin ... Okarma clicks on a laptop and shows me a movie of white rats in a cage. "Pay attention to the tail and the two hind legs," he says. Two months before, the ...

The team first showed the cloned virus could replicate in multiple types of human and mammal cell cultures ... as well as rat HEV. “Research could now focus on whether pork liver products ...

The mucosal layer in the small intestine degrades with age in rats, allowing digestive enzymes to slowly escape and leak into ...

The mucosal layer in the small intestine degrades with age in rats, allowing digestive enzymes to slowly escape and leak into organs outside the intestine, including the liver, lung, heart, kidney and ...

One thing is certain: They’re everywhere. NEW YORK CITY Adaptable and smart, rats of several species have evolved to thrive in major cities—yet the sight of a rat scurrying across West ...

This allowed the team members to develop cartilage-like tissue from human iPS cells. The tissue was transplanted into rats whose nucleus pulposus had been removed. The grafted cells functioned ...

Paul Island, Alaska, when it arrived in June. A resident had reported a rat sighting. “I got PTSD immediately,” Lauren Divine, the director of the island’s Ecosystem Conservation Office ...