A research team at Florida State University's Institute of Molecular Biophysics and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry ...

Fibrosis, resulting from excess extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition, is a feature of adipose tissue (AT) dysfunction and ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic disease in which healthy lung tissue is gradually replaced by scar tissue.

Finding a biological mechanism much like an online social network, scientists have identified the bacterial protein VpsT as the master regulator in Vibrio, the cause of cholera and other enteric ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers examined the pathological impacts of the structural components of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on ...

Two mutated alleles of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene result in the autosomal recessive ...

The review details how fibrous proteins such as collagen, keratin, and silk, along with adhesive proteins and elastin, can be tailored through chemical modifications and de novo molecular design to ...

Expert Rev Proteomics. 2009;6(4):421-431. Thus far, many groups have been working in the study of serum protein changes during the development of liver fibrosis. [54–58] It was of great clinical ...