A defining characteristic of all cells is the plasma membrane, a thin layer of lipids that separates the interior of the cell from the outside environment. The plasma membrane is supported by the ...

You’ve been wounded; nothing serious thankfully, but you watch your scrape go through the stereotypical stages of healing: first it’s raw, perhaps a bit bloody, but then the wound begins to close and ...

The study is the first to identify a damage response pathway that is distinct from but parallel to the classical pathway triggered by pathogens. It's a dangerous world out there. From bacteria and ...

A newly discovered cell that matures into two specialist cell types – an immune cell responsible for tissue repair and a cell that forms blood vessels – significantly boosts wound healing, according ...

This summer, over 50 researchers in the NSF EMBRIO Institute convened to share their newest findings on cellular signaling and organization that drives wound repair, cellular defense, and organismal ...

Hair follicle stem cells (green) mobilize and expand (white) to help repair the skin’s barrier by differentiating into epidermal lineages (red). When a child falls off her bike and scrapes her knee, ...

Humans aren't capable of regenerating lost limbs, but our bodies can heal from many wounds. Whenever we scratch or cut our skin, for example, skin stem cells move in to regrow the epidermis and repair ...

A study by the team of Prof. Kodi Ravichandran (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) and colleagues found that pyroptosis, a form of programmed cell death traditionally thought to be purely ...