The team has unveiled an innovative technique to convert fibroblasts—common connective tissue cells—into mature and functional induced cardiomyocytes (iCMs). Their method relies on combining ...

Cells in living tissues are constantly exposed to changes. And although many conditions can be replicated in the lab with ...

in which oxygen is absorbed from the respiratory air into the blood (left). In fibrotic lung tissue, these have been displaced by connective tissue growths (right).