In a discovery that could pave the way for therapies that promote wound healing and alleviate skin diseases, RIKEN researchers have found that the network of molecules under the outermost layer of ...

Perhaps the most powerful and long-lasting image in biology is that the basic component of living organisms is the cell. The region between cells has generally been ignored as only a vast scaffold ...

Basement membranes are extracellular matrices—flat sheets of protein and carbohydrate—that are essential for tissue architecture and function. But like all tissues, they are subject to damage. Until ...