Keigo Machida, PhDMolecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine of USC keigo.machida@med.usc.edu

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Linda Sher; featured image for USC surgeon-scientist Linda Sher receives $2.7 million CIRM grant to develop and test immunologically modified and humanized swine livers

USC surgeon-scientist Linda Sher receives $2.7 million CIRM grant to develop and test immunologically modified and humanized swine livers

Posted March 12, 2024

In 1992, Linda Sher was part of a surgical team at Cedars-Sinai that transplanted a pig liver into a human patient for the first time in the history of medicine. The pig …

Chemotherapy kills most cancer cells, but cancer stem cell survive and seed a new tumor that resists chemotherapy.; featured image for Scientists root out the “bad seeds” of liver cancer

Scientists root out the “bad seeds” of liver cancer

Posted January 7, 2016

Researchers have found the “bad seeds” of liver cancer and believe they could one day reprogram them to remain responsive to cancer treatment, according to a new study in the January 12 …