POSTS TAGGED AS liver

Growing Liver Organoids in a Microfluidic Device

Microfluidics
Being able to grow liver organoids in a microfluidic device for drug testing in advance of animal or human experiments [MORE]

Organovo’s 3-D Printed Liver Patches for Transplants

3-D Printed Liver Tissue
Much of the work in liver tissue regeneration has focused on making micro-organelles for drug testing. But [MORE]

Device to Measure Drug Metabolism in the Liver

Liver Drug Analysis
Anticancer drugs are metabolized in the liver before they reach the tumor target—thus a need for a means [MORE]

Order Now: “exVive” 3-D Printed Human Livers

Organovo exVive 3D Liver Models
Organovo (San Diego, CA) recently announced that it is now taking orders for 3-D printed human [MORE]

Regenerating Islet Cells

Orgenesis
This piece is light on the details, but the basic idea is to extract liver cells from a Type 1 [MORE]

Tentative Steps toward Liver Regeneration

Shinya Yamanaka
Last year, Japanese scientist Shimya Yamanaka shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about converting [MORE]

Growing Livers Outside the Body

The liver can regenerate itself naturally, but that has been very difficult to achieve outside the body.  However, researchers [MORE]

First Fully Automated Liver Perfusion Device

Liver Organ Device
Until now, liver transplantation was a race against time—i.e. the time a liver “on ice” remained viable, [MORE]

First Engineered Hepatic Vein from Stem Cells Successfully Implanted

Taking a nine cm groin vein from a living donor, then stripping it of cells before engrafting a 10 [MORE]

Liver’s Role in Hypertension

For over a half century, physiologists have known that blood pressure is controlled by some mechanism outside the brain.  [MORE]