Researchers make discovery that may help liver disease treatment
The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience has made a discovery that could help treat serious liver disease.
A group of the Institute's researchers teamed up with the University of Barcelona to identify that a protein called caveolin plays a vital role in liver regeneration.
Team leader Professor Robert Parton says understanding caveolin's function is a breakthrough on an international scale.
"This is one step in understanding this process with a lot of these very basic fundamental cellular cell biology discoveries," he said.
"It gives us another step forward in our goal of trying to understand diseases like hepatitis."