A team at Johns Hopkins Medicine has focused their work on myelin development using oligodendrocytes to help study conditions like MS.

Brazilian researchers have found that stellate pancreatic cells produce periostin, which reshapes surrounding tissue and allows tumors to spread more easily, helping explain why the disease is so ...

Researchers have discovered how pancreatic cancer reprograms its surroundings to spread quickly and stealthily. By using a protein called periostin, the tumor remodels nearby tissue and invades nerves ...

Biliary atresia (BA) is a life-threatening liver disease of infancy in which early surgery can restore bile flow but rarely halts long-term liver injury.

If you have known someone who has unfortunately suffered from pancreatic cancer, you know that the short-term prognosis is ...

Pitted acne scars form due to a loss of collagen following deep acne breakouts. Treatments like microneedling, chemical peels, and laser therapy can help improve the appearance of pitted acne scars.

Researchers have found that new myelin-making cells are constantly being made in the brain and spinal cord, even in the ...

Pancreatic cancer has long been one of medicine’s most unforgiving puzzles, killing most patients within a few years and ...

Prostaglandin analogues, such as latanoprost and bimatoprost, are the go-to therapies for glaucoma therapy. They continue to ...

Senescence. It’s a beautiful-sounding word whose tones suggest it should be a perfume or an essential oil. But that’s not even close. Senescence is the loss of a cell’s power to divide and grow, thus ...

As organisms develop from embryos, groups of cells migrate and reshape themselves to form all manner of complex tissues.