Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein normally expressed in cells that develop into connective tissue, blood vessels, and lymphatic tissue (mesenchymal cells). Despite being widely ...

If you were old enough to watch the news or read the paper back in the late 1990s, you very likely remember Dolly, the cloned sheep. Born in 1996, the researchers responsible for cloning her kept it ...

On today’s Day of Women and Girls in Science, only few nations have reached parity in tertiary STEM education. A majority, ...

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a common and severe complication that occurs after stem cell transplantation, where the ...

Nearly 60,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer in the U.S. every year, according to the American Cancer Society, and the ...

Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its ...

In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying specklelike structures called P ...

This review summarized three groundbreaking approaches: islet organoids differentiated from Procr+ pancreatic progenitor cells, chemically induced pluripotent stem cells (CiPSCs), and endoderm stem ...

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...

Post-mortem analyses have confirmed the replication of the virus in mammary epithelial cells, and viral titers have been detected in milk, underscoring the mammary gland's role as both a reservoir ...