A 47-year-old man with cystic fibrosis hopes that stories like his will be reassuring to younger people diagnosed with the ...

Deficiency of the pancreatic progenitor cell differentiation and proliferation factor gene was identified as a risk factor ...

Cystic Fibrosis Ireland chief executive Sarah Tecklenborg says people can now “plan for the future with greater confidence” ...

Fibrosis is an affliction wherein cells produce excess fibrous tissue. Fibroblast cells do this to close wounds, but the process can cascade in unwanted places. Examples include cardiac fibrosis; ...

Lipid abnormalities are a common complication in diabetic kidney disease (DKD), contributing to disease progression and ...

Biomedical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have decoded how mechanical forces drive cell behavior in fibrosis.

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not ...

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 ...

Research led by Children's Hospital of Fudan University in China has found that a gene called pancreatic progenitor cell ...

Stopping cell microtubule protrusions, pictured here, could potentially inhibit unwanted fibrosis, wherein cells produce ...