More information: Marta Torregrossa et al, Effects of embryonic origin, tissue cues and pathological signals on fibroblast diversity in humans, Nature Cell Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41556-025 ...

Fibroblasts play a central role in maintaining healthy tissue structures, as well as in the development and progression of diseases. For a long time, these specialised connective tissue cells were ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts? ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 298 No. 4 (April 2008) doi:10.1038 ...

Resting fibroblasts are important, however, for maintaining the structure and functioning of healthy tissue. Researchers therefore studied the differences between the surfaces of resting and of ...

In the hand, Dupuytren’s contracture is caused by excess growth of a connective cell (called a fibroblast) in the superficial palmar fascia (fascia is thick, tough connective tissue found in ...

Researchers at Umeå University have investigated the connective tissue cells that surround the cancer cells in pancreatic cancer. These cells, called cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF), play an ...

Fibroblasts play a central role in maintaining healthy tissue structures, as well as in the development and progression of diseases. For a long time, these specialized connective tissue cells were ...