Bone and skeletal injuries cause extensive and long-term functional impairments worldwide. In a new study, researchers at ...

Overall, the study shows that it is possible to create safe, cell-free tissue structures that effectively help the body build new ...

New review reveals how non-genomic estrogen signaling undermines treatment response and fuels tumor progression Hormone receptor–positive breast ...

Brazilian researchers have found that stellate pancreatic cells produce periostin, which reshapes surrounding tissue and allows tumors to spread more easily, helping explain why the disease is so ...

A new Brazilian study has revealed the key role of the protein periostin and stellate pancreatic cells in allowing pancreatic cancer to infiltrate nerves and spread early, increasing the risk of ...

This review innovatively proposes the use of electrospinning to fabricate electroactive fibrous scaffolds, which mimic the structure of the extracellular matrix while providing electrical activity, ...

Growing from a single cell into a complex organism with specialized tissues and organs requires a complex and coordinated process. But the mechanical signals that guide tissue and organ ...

Recent works in mechanobiology have investigated overarching changes in cell behavior in response to extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness. Nonetheless, little is known about how key metabolic pathways ...

1 The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan Medical University, Changsha, China. 2 The Second Department of Radiotherapy, The Fifth People’s Hospital of Qinghai Province, Xining, China. 3 Department of ...

The authors show that a middle carotid artery occlusion (MCAO) hypoxia lesion leads to hyaluronan-mediated chemoattraction to the lesion penumbra of Thbs-4-expressing astrocytes of the subventricular ...

Recently, a research team from Chongqing Medical University, led by Prof. Wei Huang, Dr. Wei Bao, and Dr. Yiting Lei, has successfully developed a novel engineered extracellular matrix (eECM) to ...