Blood vessel damage in the spinal cord may play a role in nerve cell loss in spinal muscular atrophy, a new study suggests.
This study presents important findings describing the early assembly of vascular basement membrane and how vascular cells switch from responding to cues provided by the external environment to those ...
Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterised by damage to the epithelial layer, closely associated with the alveolar basement membrane (BM). We aimed to investigate how type IV ...
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 ...
The Role of Immune and Stromal Mediators in the Formation of Pre-Metastatic and Metastatic Niches: The Gateway to Metastasis ...
Legal basement apartments are finally coming to New York City. Last week, the Department of Buildings launched an online application for homeowners who want to modify their basements — and also their ...
In 2020, right when Jane Baude was starting her Ph.D. research at UC Santa Barbara, she learned that a critical component of her experiment — the gel needed to grow and test mammary epithelial cells — ...
The expansion and contraction of organs is aided by the protein fibulin-1, highlighted here, in a microscopy image, around the basement membrane (the big oval) that surrounds the spermatheca and the ...
Cell membranes cradle, protect, and gatekeep living cells. Membranes can even affect how a cell behaves. But membranes' own erratic behavior has puzzled scientists for years. Turns out, it's all about ...