A research team has successfully developed an innovative platform for diabetes treatment using bioink derived from pancreatic ...

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder caused by dysfunction in the pancreas, the organ responsible for regulating blood sugar levels. Within the pancreas, islet cells secrete insulin to lower blood sugar.

A research team led by Prof. ZENG Zhutian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) identified and named a novel population of bladder-resident macrophages, termed suburothelial ...

polarized mammary acinus-like structures with a central lumen and an external endogenous basement membrane. When the matrix is progressively stiffened, cell growth is enhanced, cell–cell ...

In normal liver, hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are nonparenchymal, quiescent cells whose main functions is to store vitamin A and probably to maintain the normal basement membrane-type matrix.

A recent study released by researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) opens the door for more effective diabetes research and treatment. The new approach leverages ...

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When you drink a nice refreshing glass of water, do you ever think, "Gee, I'm glad that polymeric desalination membrane did its job!" Probably not, but maybe you should. Those thin polyamide ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows ... of proteins that are embedded in a lipid matrix that closely approximates a phospholipid ...