In this interview Prof. Dr. Kristina Kusche-Vihrog speaks about the nanomechanics of living cells and their implications for ...

These findings could help scientists design better treatments for bowel diseases, which take an entirely new approach than ...

Researchers have found a potential new way to slow the progression of lung fibrosis and other fibrotic diseases by inhibiting ...

The authors have generated important resources such as a reference dataset of early primate development by utilizing single-cell transcriptomic technology together with induced pluripotent stem cells ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.

Researchers found that a gene on the Y chromosome influences how aortic valve stenosis progresses differently in males and ...

In females, these cells primarily transform into smooth muscle-like cells called myofibroblasts ... then used it to culture male and female heart valve cells. On this tissue-like surface, they ...

Although cannabis contains 100t cannabinoids, research from cell culture and mouse models suggest ... vascular endothelial, and smooth muscle cells. The CB1 receptor promotes atherosclerotic ...

and isolate and culture these cells from rat pancreas. Methods—Liver and pancreatic sections from chow fed rats were immunostained for desmin, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and α smooth ...

Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid' robots powered by ...

Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis ...