Proper regulation of these rates is essential to tissue maintenance and repair. The spatial organization of the cells that form a tissue is also central to the tissue's function and survival.

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The mammalian immune system is an evolutionary wonder. It's capable of recognizing and destroying cancer cells, and it can ...

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Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into how intercellular "glue" functions to enable ...

Tight junctions form a seal between cells that is so strong that not even ions can pass across it. Gap junctions are involved in cellular communication — not just in epithelial tissue ...

Our research focus and goals - how cells form tissues. We are interested in how cells become specialized, and how they collaborate at the population level to collectively build organs. Our focus is on ...

Glucose is life's main energy source. But a new study reveals a surprising role as a master manipulator of tissue maturation, hinting at its importance in diabetes and cancer.

"Our findings demonstrate how computational integration of spatial transcriptomics and mechanical profiling at single-cell resolution can uncover important and novel relationships between gene ...

has conducted research on the use of stem cells derived from adipose tissue for wound healing and scar formation. Her study sheds new light on the potential of these cells to improve surgical ...