Cells in the developing heart must find the perfect match, much like a game of microscopic speed dating. Using filopodia—tiny ...

In developing hearts, cells shuffle around, bumping into each other to find their place, and the stakes are high: pairing ...

From his lab at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery Institute, Mingfu Wu, associate professor, is ...

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Cells can also send out packages called exosomes, lipid vesicles that bubble off from the cell membrane. But for about 20 years we have known about another way for cells to get in touch: by forming ...

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A Japanese research team found that the oxidized form of glutathione (GSSG) may protect heart tissue by modifying a key ...

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities -- are mute, ...

New Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist Ahmed Mahmoud, PhD, planned to complete his doctoral degree and enter the pharmaceutical ...

BACKGROUND: Despite the high morbidity and mortality of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), treatment ...

pairing with the wrong cell could mean the difference between a beating heart and one that falters. A study demonstrates how heart cells go about this 'matchmaking' process. The researchers model ...