The messages, many deeply personal, focus on the regional boundaries that divide life from death for patients with liver disease. (scientificamerican.com)
Liver transplantation is the mainstay of treatment for patients with end - stage liver disease, the 12th leading cause of death in the United States, but new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, published in the journal Cell Stem Cell today, suggests that it may one day become possible to regenerate a liver using cell therapy in patients with liver disease. (sciencedaily.com)
«If we want to treat patients with liver disease, we only want to silence targets in the liver, not other cell types.» (sciencedaily.com)