The FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has accepted a letter of intent for the first biomarker for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis into its Biomarker Qualification Program, according to a press ...

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 ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have found how a single mechanosensitive protein induces the process that thickens and scars tissue, known as fibrosis. The protein, called VGLL3, was shown to ...

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 ...

A discovery at Duke-NUS Medical School offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung condition that progressively makes it harder for patients to breathe. Scientists ...

When UNSW Associate Professor Shafagh Waters explains cystic fibrosis (CF) to the children she works with, she asks them 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 ...

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 ...

New research advances our understanding of the gating mechanism of the CFTR, the chloride channel mutated in cystic fibrosis patients. The study by Tzyh-Chang Hwang and colleagues (University of ...