Cells that stop dividing do not simply vanish from the body. Some remain active, support repair or suppress tumors, while ...

A comprehensive new review highlights the expanding importance of Lgr6, a member of the G protein-coupled receptor family, as ...

Valerie Horsley goes deep into the skin to uncover how adipocytes, immune cells, and other cell types coordinate tissue ...

The amount of the protein rises and falls as the cells shift between rest, tissue repair, and self-renewal, suggesting that TRF2 helps organize the regeneration process. Muscle Stem Cells Lost Their ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors are well known as a form of cancer treatment. Researchers at UZH have now identified a new, important function of these inhibitors: promotion of tissue healing. This ...

The ability to repair tissue following injuries is essential for the survival of all animals. Following wounding, the skin is repaired by activating, migrating, and dividing skin stem cells. Defects ...

A new type of tissue-engineered cardiac patch could not only seal defective areas of the heart, as has been the case up to now, but also heal them. An interdisciplinary team led by ETH Zurich has ...

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the body's organs—can respond to death and destruction with a burst of ...

Unique new material has shown significant promise in the treatment of spinal cord injury. The new hybrid biomaterials, in the form of nanoparticles and building on existing practice in the tissue ...

Our livers contain many different types of immune cells. New research by the team of Prof. Charlotte Scott (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) and colleagues now reveals that a specific ...