Inspired by hepatic lobules, a novel artificial liver was developed by assembling morphological cell sheets with high accuracy in terms of cell type, density, and distribution. By simulating the ...

The puzzle Starting with mouse livers treated with carbon tetrachloride (which models acetaminophen damage), Drasdo’s team built computational models of how liver lobules regenerate after damage.

The black circle you see in the middle of this image is one of many structures called central veins; they are located in liver lobules, large functional units within the liver. Here, you can see that ...