"I was willing to give up my whole life to come out here." The treatment, called a cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation -- or CALEC -- can help restore surface corneal ...

UC San Diego and Stanford University researchers have created a comprehensive map of the human U2OS cell. The map revealed previously unknown functions of proteins including C18orf21 (pictured). Photo ...

The study sheds new light on how the Chagas Disease parasite invades human cells—a crucial step towards developing effective treatments for this neglected tropical disease. Chagas Disease ...

We recently described the possibility to exploit custom human stem cell lines for eECM manufacturing. In addition to the conferred standardization, the availability of such cell lines opened avenues ...

Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China ...

The human airway epithelium (bronchial and bronchiolar) is a pseudostratified columnar tissue that is composed of multiple epithelial cell sub-types such as basal cells, mucin-producing (goblet) cells ...

Here, we created a normal gallbladder epithelial cell line named L-2F7 from human gallbladder tissue. Methods: Gallbladder tissues from a diagnosed cholecystitis female patient were collected, and ...

After detecting cDNA of Alu, the most abundant retrotransposon in the human genome, in the cytoplasm of cells modeling a degenerative eye disease, University of Virginia ophthalmologist Jayakrishna ...

Human oral soft tissues provide the first barrier of defence against chronic inflammatory disease and hold a remarkable scarless wounding phenotype. Tissue homeostasis requires coordinated actions of ...