Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

Not all zombie skin cells are the same. New research reveals three unique subtypes with different roles in aging and disease, ...

Through a comprehensive study of fibroblasts in the tumor environment, including their interaction with other cells such as epithelial, mesenchymal and immune cells, three clearly distinguishable ...

Although mesenchymal cells are essential to formation of the body plan and normal tissue remodelling during organogenesis, the excessive accumulation of aggressive fibroblasts in adult organs can ...

A key process in atherosclerosis is the endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT), which involves the transformation of endothelial cells into ... by targeting the fibroblast growth factor ...

In 2017, scientific journals published more than 3,500 papers using the words “mesenchymal stem cells,” according to an op-ed that appears in Nature today (September 26). The term initially described ...

A new study in the peer-reviewed journal Stem Cells and Development highlights the potential of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a therapeutic strategy for high-dose ...

The Mara Sherman lab aims to understand the heterocellular interactions among pancreatic cancer cells and their surrounding microenvironment ... molecular mechanisms underlying cancer-associated ...