Stopping cell microtubule protrusions, pictured here, could potentially inhibit unwanted fibrosis, wherein cells produce ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not ...

Fibrosis is an affliction wherein cells produce excess fibrous tissue. Fibroblast cells do this to close wounds, but the process can cascade in unwanted places. Examples include cardiac fibrosis; ...

Researchers have found a potential new way to slow the progression of lung fibrosis and other fibrotic diseases by inhibiting ...

Researchers have found a potential new way to slow the progression of lung fibrosis and other fibrotic diseases by inhibiting ...

This progressive lung disease transforms healthy tissue into stiff, scarred areas making breathing difficult. Learn the ...

Biomedical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have decoded how mechanical forces drive cell behavior in fibrosis.

Although cystic fibrosis is a single gene mutation, there are more than 1,000 different ways the CFTR gene can mutate in ...

A new study from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) reveals the process underlying protein organization on cell ...

Studying how proteins cluster and organize themselves at the cell membrane could pave the way for innovative cystic fibrosis ...