The environment of retinal nerve cells plays a crucial role in the processing of visual signals. The processing of visual information begins with a targeted and balanced communication between nerve ...

Researchers have shown that the matrix protein fibronectin reprograms macrophages in damaged dental pulp into pro-angiogenic ...

Mechanotransduction describes the pathways by which cells detect and respond to mechanical cues in their surroundings, translating forces and deformations into intracellular biochemical signals. At ...

Before arriving at Janelia three years ago, Postdoctoral Scientist Antonio Fiore was designing and building optical instruments like microscopes and spectrometers. Fiore, a physicist by training, came ...

A new study, led by Prof. Liu from the department of pharmacy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, discovered that the extracellular cell matrix (ECM) could induce the drug ...

For in vitro cellular assays, the extracellular matrix—the material between cells—often is overlooked, but changes within this microenvironment affect cells’ proliferation and differentiation and, ...