When a scar develops from surgery, injury, or infection, the surrounding tissue transforms. While scar formation has been ...

New research reveals that neurons can switch their migration strategy depending on whether they move on flat surfaces or through tight, crowded spaces.

In the developing brain, neurons must navigate through complex and often crowded tissue to reach their final ...

They also help regulate blood pressure, red blood cell production and calcium balance in the body. When the kidneys are damaged ... and can narrow the blood vessels and damage the blood vessel lining ...

Nick Kharufeh said he never thought he would see out of his left eye again after suffering an injury several years ... autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation -- or CALEC -- can help ...

They also help regulate blood pressure, red blood cell production and calcium balance in the body. When the kidneys are ...

Background Injured or reactive biliary epithelial cells participate in most chronic ... macrophage crosstalk on biliary injury. Altogether, we provided mechanistic evidence that cholangiocyte-derived ...

Research into secondary brain damage, which follows the initial injury, has yielded a potential breakthrough ... These molecules, which include free radicals, chemically modify and deform essential ...

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.