Why are the elderly so much more likely to get sick and hospitalized for pneumonia and COVID? UCSF scientists found that old ...

A metabolic enzyme found in the support cells surrounding tumors may hold the key to predicting which cancer patients will ...

NUDT21 regulates fibroblast senescence and is significantly decreased in aged and fibrotic lungs, impacting IPF progression. Alternative polyadenylation (APA) and NUDT21 downregulation enhance STAT3 ...

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, ...

Fibroblasts, a type of cell found in connective tissue, are involved in important biological processes, such as wound repair. Cancer-associated fibroblasts are those that accumulate in tumors. These ...

L uis Garza, a physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for over a decade, noticed a common issue when treating people with limb amputations at his clinic. They often had ...

Regular erections could be important for maintaining erectile function, according to a new study on mice published in Science by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. “We discovered that an increased ...