Every day, the liver packages fat and releases it into the bloodstream to fuel the body, supplying energy to the heart, ...

An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hopes that conditions like ...

It is not every day that someone tells you they have “a passion for liver disease, especially end-stage liver disease”. But that is exactly how Patrizia Burra, a Co-Chair of the second European ...

As a hepatologist, Aleksander Krag has always sought to improve the prognosis of patients with liver disease, whom, he tells The Lancet, he often thinks of as a fictional patient he calls “Henry”. His ...

Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center provide critical insight into how the brain and body work together to ...

Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat, in large part because tumors do not exist in isolation.

There is considerable evidence that microplastics and nanoplastics are present in the livers of humans, and wild animal ...

“Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, and brussels sprouts are some of the best foods you can ...

Following the success of the first volume of this Research Topic, which resulted in 17 published articles, this second edition continues to explore safe and ...

Scientists call the vast community that carries out this work the necrobiome – a shifting cast of microbes, insects, ...