Cole Lewis developed an interest in biology in Norma Anderson s classroom at Oakwood High School. Now, he s developing a potentially game-changing cancer drug.
A mutant or damaged gene may be a cause of a severe, mysterious form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have found.
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The liver has a rare superpower among body organs - the ability to regenerate, even if 70% of its mass is removed. It also keeps up its metabolic and toxin-removing work during the process of regeneration, thanks to a subset of cells that expand their workload while the rest focus on multiplication, a new study in mice found.
Furthermore, the cells of the liver communicate with each other to coordinate regeneration activity, which progresses from the center to the periphery of the missing liver lobes, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said. It s remarkable how we still don t understand many aspects of liver regeneration, said Illinois biochemistry professor Auinash Kalsotra, who led the study published in the journal
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