Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

Jen Davis (left) and Bella Reichardt (right) conducting research in a lab for genetic engineering of heart fibroblasts.at the UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration Medicine. Fibroblasts ...

FibroBiologics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FBLG) ("FibroBiologics"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company with 270+ patents issued and pending with a focus on the development of therapeutics and potential cures ...

Algorithms developed for this study analyzed the images, measured 87 different physical characteristics for each cell, and sorted the fibroblasts into groups. Fibroblasts come in 11 different shapes ...

As we age, we don’t recover from injury or illness like we did when we were young. But new research from UC San Francisco has found gene regulators that turn genes on and off that could restore the ...

FibroBiologics developed a transplantable thymic micro-organoid system using selectively screened fibroblasts combined with thymic stromal cells. The organoids are produced through a rapid, three-day, ...

A research team has identified a promising new therapeutic strategy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), showing that ...

The immune system is a complex response of various cells that detect and elicit mechanisms to eliminate disease. This ...