Figure 1: Growth rates and relative telomerase activity in fibroblasts transfected with TERT. Figure 2: The retinoblastoma protein phosphorylation status in normal and telomerase–expressing ...

Fibroblasts are the most common cell type in connective tissue. They can be compared to 'nature's stitches', holding together ...

4 For their current study, Garza and his team built on this and more recent work reporting that fibroblasts have positional memory. 5 “We realized we could take the fibroblasts out of a person and ...

Zika, a mosquito-borne virus first identified in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey, continues to perplex scientists in many ways nearly 80 years later. While many people with a Zika virus infection ...

The spread of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits the Zika virus as well as dengue, Rift Valley fever, and ...

Myeong-Hwa Song. The team has unveiled an innovative technique to convert fibroblasts-;common connective tissue cells-;into mature and functional induced cardiomyocytes (iCMs). Their method relies ...

A study from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine reveals that Zika virus alters human skin chemistry, increasing volatile organic compounds that attract mosquitoes. This boosts virus ...

ONCOMATRYX, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel ADCs against the tumor microenvironment, has successfully raised €25 million, to fund Phase Ib-II clinical trials of OMTX705, a first-in-class ...

Ncardia, a leading human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technology company, today announced the launch of Ncyte® Heart ...