In a discovery that could pave the way for therapies that promote wound healing and alleviate skin diseases, RIKEN researchers have found that the network of molecules under the outermost layer of ...

Ultrastructural studies of centipede and other myriapod ovaries reveal direct soma-germline contact across the basement membrane, a structure typically regarded as a cellular barrier. A new study by ...

Scientists have exposed a cell pathway that breast tumor cells use to destruct local tissue neighborhood. Cancer cells may use this pathway to free themselves from mammary epithelial tissue ...

Scientists at Duke University say they made the first time-lapse movies of the sheet-like latticework that surrounds and supports most animal tissues. A thin layer of extracellular matrix known as the ...

Studies by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Beijing Normal University, and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have generated new insights into the elastic ...

University of Manchester biologists have for the first time started to unpick the long-term biological changes associated with serious viral lung infections, such as flu and long COVID, in a study of ...

Entactin-1 (nidogen-1) is an ubiquitous component of basement membranes. From in vitro experiments, entactin-1 was assigned a role in maintaining the structural integrity of the basement membrane ...

Scientists from the University of Helsinki and UCSF have exposed a cell pathway that breast tumor cells use to destruct local tissue neighborhood. Cancer cells may use this pathway to free themselves ...