2018 Research Annual Report

Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Featured Research

Hepatocyte Transdifferentiation: How Some Liver Cells Switch Identities to Build Missing Bile Ducts By studying the rare liver disease Alagille syndrome, scientists from Cincinnati Children’s and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered the mechanism behind an unusual form of tissue regeneration that may someday reduce the need for expensive and difficult-to-obtain organ transplants.