Fatty liver

Blocking key enzyme to protect against fatty liver may raise cancer risk instead

by University of Adelaide edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes  The GIST Add as preferred source Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists have discovered that blocking a key cellular enzyme thought to protect against fatty liver disease may instead increase the risk of chronic liver damage and cancer as we age. In a major study published in Science […]

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Fatty liver – but not liver damage – common in type 2 diabetes

Linköping University image: To measure scarring in a patient’s liver with magnet resonance imaging, a vibrator is affixed above the liver. The vibrator causes compression waves in the liver, which can be observed in the images. The more scarring, the faster the wave motion. Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Six out of ten people with type

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