For the first time, scientists are attempting to grow a new, miniature liver inside of a person. It sounds like science fiction; in fact, the idea was the plot of a Grey’s Anatomy episode that aired ...

Many organs play important roles, but not all of them are required for survival. Some are removed because of injury, and ...

Part of the liver is removed and hepatocytes isolated and injected back into the lymph nodes of the same animal. Credit: UPMC Hepatocytes—the chief functional cells of the liver—are natural ...

Smaller lymph nodes commonly seen on abdominal CT scans in "healthy" people are not clinically significant and require no further imaging, a new study confirms. The study was performed because there ...

I kept going back and forth to my GP, who dismissed my symptoms. “By then I was so fatigued I was on my knees. I had to choose whether to eat or have a shower. 'I am a healthy young woman' “When they ...

Lymph node metastasis occurs in "metastatic" lymph nodes, lymph nodes that have been infected by cancer from elsewhere in the body. A part of the immune system, lymph nodes are tiny ovals placed ...