The researchers intend to continue testing their liver-lobe-specific hydrodynamic gene therapy on a larger group of animals to improve delivery safety and efficiency.

The liver has two main portions or lobes. Each lobe is further divided into eight segments. Each segment has an estimated 1,000 lobules or small lobes.

It divides the liver into the right and left lobes. The right hepatic vein is the largest. It divides your liver’s right lobe from front to back.

Your liver fills the space under the right side of your rib cage and nestles on top of your stomach. It's made up of two parts called lobes -- a smaller left lobe and a bigger right lobe. How Your ...

image: Liver lobe-specific hydrodynamic gene delivery to baboons: A preclinical trial for hemophilia gene therapy view more . Credit: Niigata University. Niigata, Japan - The research group of ...

Doctors performed an ultrasound of the man's abdomen and found an abscess — a pus-filled mass — in the right lobe of his liver. They drained the abscess and gave the patient a 10-day course of ...