While studying mouse and human liver tumors, they discovered that certain bile acids in the liver could affect the activity of cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells. The researchers identified ...

Salk scientists link bile acids and immune cell performance in liver cancer, finding that supplementing the bile acid UDCA—already a current treatment for liver disease—and inhibiting bile ...

David Sinclair with Harvard Medical School has published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue giving a short history of the search for factors ... acid (LCA), a bile acid created by ...