fibroblasts

Scientists have perfected the recipe to convert giant panda skin cells into stem cells to study the animal’s biology and aid its conservation. 

Researchers discover that glycogen and N-linked glycans accumulate in fibrotic regions of the lung and may be important for therapy development.

Researchers report that vaccination against proteins found on profibrotic cells reduced liver and lung fibrosis in laboratory rodents.

An analysis of human data from the UK biobank also finds an association between Y chromosome loss and heart disease in men.

Researchers in Japan have given a plastic robot finger a layered coating made from actual, living skin cells. Next, they aim to add hair and sweat glands.

A new study reveals that the fibroblasts in tissue surrounding acne infections play an active role in the body’s immune response—and that existing treatments help trigger them to do so.

A study uncovers a novel connection between the biomolecule and cancer progression.

Specialized immune cells generated in vivo reduce cardiac scar tissue in mice, a new study shows.

Paul Thomas from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will discuss how he used single cell and spatial transcriptomics to discover the underlying mechanism of an inflammatory immune response in the lungs.

The presence of a particular set of RNAs in the blood forewarns of an onset of severe symptoms and points to the cells involved.

Scientists show the approach can kill cells that cause hardening of heart tissue in mice.

Maps of diving cells before and after heart attacks in mice offer additional evidence against the existence of cardiac stem cells.

Using different combinations of transcription factors, researchers create a diverse array of neurons from mouse skin cells.

Researchers created a nanofibrous scaffold to see how it supports cell growth.

With a diameter smaller than 100 nanometers, this nanopipette’s indiscernible tip is tiny enough to suck up minute contents of a single cell. 

Researchers use the CRISPR/Cas system to express three transcription-factor genes, changing the identities of mouse cells.

Fibroblasts help tumors metastasize by paving a “migration highway” through the extracellular matrix, scientists report.

The authors of a 2008 Nature paper have retracted it after new data watered down the conclusions.

New PLOS data sharing rules; mouse cortical connectome published; reprogramming astrocytes into neurons and fibroblasts into hepatocytes