This virus also offers a potential liver-specific targeting system for gene therapy.

Patients should have monthly blood tests to check for potential liver injury, the FDA said.

Assigning a morphometric age to potential liver transplant recipients could improve prediction of postoperative mortality risk.

The FDA advisory panel reviewing the drug for Crohn's discussed the potential liver risks last year.

Spanish police have dismantled a ring accused of trafficking human organs and which they say offered €40,000 to potential liver donors.