Challenging conventional medical wisdom, Israeli scientists found that scar tissue formation in the heart occurs through two distinct mechanisms — a discovery that could lead to new and more targeted ...

Moreover, the cells and soluble factors participating in this response in liver are also similar to those in parenchymal injury to kidney, lung, or skin. Fibrosis occurs earliest in regions where ...

Medical science has long been on the hunt for a deeper understanding of the devastating scarring of the body's organs known as fibrosis, which leads to irrevocable loss of function. Fibrosis ...

Protein palmitoylation is a post-translational modification catalyzed by a series of enzymes called zinc finger DHHC (ZDHHC) palmitoyltransferases. Scientists from Guangzhou Medical University and ...

China: The researchers have developed a predictive model to assess the progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) to ...

A discovery offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung condition that progressively makes it harder for patients to breathe. Scientists have pinpointed proteins in ...

Researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of a morphological-based approach to interpreting spatial transcriptomic (ST) ...