UCSF study shows that aging connective tissue in the lungs brings on a catastrophic immune response in older people.

Fibroblasts are an essential component of the heart, as they play key roles in its structure, development and response to ...

Fibrosis is the body's way of patching up damage—a bit like fixing a pothole. When skin is cut or a muscle is injured, fibroblast cells rush in to make fibronectin and collagen, which are two major ...

Chemokines, our body's chemical messengers, play a crucial role in regulating the immune response. They are secreted by immune cells to stimulate the movement of other immune cells into inflamed ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

In a recently published study, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center revealed for the first time that cancer cells can evade anti-cancer drugs by entering and surviving within bone marrow fibroblasts ...

FibroBiologics will present on fibroblast-based therapies for chronic diseases at a conference in Freiburg, Germany, on March 27, 2025. FibroBiologics, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on ...

In patients developing end-stage liver disease, the damage has become too severe for the liver's normally extraordinary ...

Often diagnosed when surgery is no longer an option, pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to treat and has ...

Study helps lay the foundations for a future of “smart” tissue therapeutics that can be scaled to a patient’s needs.