High-fat diets make liver cells more likely to become cancerous
Lillian Eden
One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet rewires liver cells and makes them more prone to becoming cancerous. The researchers found that in response to a high-fat diet, mature hepatocytes in the liver revert to an immature, stem-cell-like […] The post High-fat diets make liver cells more likely to become cancerous appeared first on MIT Department of Biology .