Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This 'barrier' tissue performs its function thanks to specialized structures called 'junctions'. They ensure cell cohesion and regulate ...

Researchers have shed new light on how tissues in the body are repaired following the damage and premature death of tissue ...

These membranes, built mostly of molecules called lipids, have been notoriously difficult to densely label in intact tissues for imaging with light microscopy. Now, researchers can use umExM to ...

ICMR's pioneering study explores using drones for swift transport of ophthalmic bio-materials like corneas and amniotic ...

But there is an expanding class of design challenges for things that incorporate soft materials -- biological materials, engineered tissues, membranes, and even shape-shifting fluids that respond ...

EVIDENCE for direct cell-to-cell communication is now available for a wide variety of epithelial tissues 1–4. At the surfaces of cell contact (junctional surfaces), the cell membranes in these ...

The peristome is the opening in the test associated with the mouth. In life it is covered in a flexible connective tissue membrane with embedded platelets. In cidaroids (above left) and ...

He discovered that a series of (2,2’-thiodiethanol)-based solutions could effectively replace the fluid inside tissues, and crucially – match its refractive index to that of the membranes ...