Scientists have found a novel way that includes a new lab-grown material that could help slow and even reverse some of the ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a previously unknown process used by epithelial cells to alleviate ...

A new single-cell endometrium atlas shows how PCOS alters endometrial cell composition, disrupts hormone signaling, and ...

In the second part of their Review on the extracellular matrix, Aitken and Bägli focus on its role in bladder regeneration. The authors describe how the composition and physical properties of ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

Tissues are ensembles of similar or compatible types of animal or plant cells that together carry out a specific function. In the human body there are four categories of tissues: epithelial ...

Cancer plasticity allows tumor cells to change their identity, evade therapies, and adapt to environmental pressures, contributing to treatment resistance and metastasis. New research is targeting ...

The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a critical non-cellular component of multicellular organisms containing a variety of proteins, glycoproteins, and proteoglycans which have been implicated in a wide ...

The design and development of functional biomimetic systems for programmed stem cell response is a field of topical interest. To mimic bone extracellular matrix, we present an innovative strategy for ...

Figure 1. Expression of chemokine and extracellular matrix receptors in differentiating thymocytes. This scheme shows the expression of extracellular matrix receptors (herein exemplified by VLA-4, VLA ...

How do breast cancer cells bypass the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to colonize the brain? This study uncovers a ...

Nanoplastics can compromise intestinal integrity in mice by altering the interactions between the gut microbiome and the host ...