By Greek City Times Staff A renewed wave of online discussion has emerged after many social media users discovered that Laminin, a crucial protein in the ...

Researchers in Sweden have engineered a cell-free cartilage scaffold that can guide the body to rebuild damaged bone. By removing the cells but preserving the structure and natural growth signals, the ...

The healing of the spinal cord depends on carefully timed interactions between injured nerve cells and their surrounding ...

Scientists have engineered a lab-on-a-chip system capable of applying precisely controlled mechanical forces to biological materials that mimic the extracellular matrix.

Post-traumatic osteoarthritis develops rapidly after joint injury, yet current treatments largely address symptoms rather ...

Senescence. It’s a beautiful-sounding word whose tones suggest it should be a perfume or an essential oil. But that’s not even close. Senescence is the loss of a cell’s power to divide and grow, thus ...

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 ...

In this revised version, the authors provide a thorough investigation of the interaction of megakaryocytes (MK) with their associated extracellular matrix (ECM) during maturation; they provide ...

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 ...

This paper is important in demonstrating a requirement for sulfation in organizing apical ECM (aECM) during tubulogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. The authors identify and characterize the ...

Human pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) monolayers generated to date display an immature embryonic-like functional and structural phenotype that limits their utility for research ...