The liver is shaped like a half-moon and is your body's largest solid organ. Check out our interactive 3-D diagram and learn how this organ is vital to the functioning of the metabolic and immune ...

Science How I Learned to Love Liver Does understanding what an organ does in the body make it taste better? For this medical student, it did.

3. Liver (Image credit: Getty Images) Weighing around 3 to 3.5 pounds (1.4 to 1.6 kg), the liver is the second heaviest organ in the human body, according to the American Liver Foundation.

The anatomy The liver is the largest and heaviest solid organ, weighing 1.2-1.5kg, and accounts for one-eighteenth of an infant’s total body weight and one-fiftieth of an adult’s. It is located under ...

Scientists from University Hospital Zurich, ETH Zurich, Wyss Zurich and the University of Zurich have managed to keep human livers alive for a week outside the body using machines. If successful ...

A PIG’S liver has been transplanted into a living human for the first time by Chinese scientists. Surgeons have grafted hearts and kidneys before but not proven success with a liver, which is a ...

The human body critically depends on the liver to metabolize toxins and synthesize biomolecules necessary for life. In addition to being a site for life threatening diseases, the liver is ...

The operation used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to reduce the chance of the organ being rejected by a human immune system.

In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

A new mouse model mimicking the liver symptoms of myotonic dystrophy type 1 -- the most prevalent form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy -- provides insight into why patients develop fatty liver ...

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure.

A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of ancient medicine has emerged from a 2,200-year-old tomb in southern China. Researchers uncovered a Chinese text on silk that could very well be the world’s ...