Teasing apart their specific functions is crucial for developing appropriate treatments, Santi said. Fibroblasts can switch between phenotypes, and the methods used by scientists to isolate and ...

The journey from panda fibroblasts to iPSCs was not easy. When Liu and his team first tried reprogramming ... Once Liu and his team fine-tuned the reprogramming steps, they looked to shorten the ...

Pancreas cells may produce a protein that can protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease. In individuals with Alzheimer's ...

Our research focuses on the tumor-permissive molecular mechanisms underlying cancer-associated fibroblast function as well as immune suppression ... including mouse models of pancreatic cancer, ...

Pancreas cells may produce a protein that can protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease. In individuals with Alzheimer's disease, a peptide known as amyloid-β accumulates and forms tangled plaques.

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 ...