In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by the injection of heart muscle ...

Researchers from the Organoid group at the Hubrecht Institute have developed a new way to grow organoids. Organoids are tiny ...

Acellular tissue-engineered vessel is approved for use in adults as a vascular conduit for extremity arterial injury ...

One of the compelling themes to emerge in recent years is the crucial role of elastic extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins in regulating TGFβ bioavailability in the vascular system 5. Defects in ...

The cytoplasmic portion of each integrin molecule binds to adaptor proteins that connect to the actin filaments inside the cell. The extracellular portion of the integrin then binds to molecules ...

These extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and microvesicles, contain a multi-molecular cargo of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and metabolites. Together with the number of EVs, this ...

Extracellular vesicles are nano-sized structures ... These vesicles carry diverse molecular particles, including DNA, proteins, and ribonucleic acid (RNA). Previous research has shown that EVs ...