Andrea Vernengo researches the messages cells send and receive through hydrogels. Her lab studies wound healing and cancer, and potential new therapies.

For decades, lab-grown cells have been studied in materials that don't reflect the softness and flexibility of human tissue.

New experimental results have cast doubt on earlier proposals suggesting that spherical, cell-like membranes could form in ...

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows membrane (green cubes), and ribosomes (yellow/purple) interwoven through in the cell’s chromosome (red). Right side shows all the ...

UCSF scientists found a precise way to turn on cancer-fighting immune cells inside the body. This more potent form of CAR-T has the potential to treat many more cancers.

The powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR–Cas9 might offer a way to make safer, more effective cancer-fighting immune cells engineered inside the human body, a mouse study has found. Cancer-fighting ...

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

Spheroids and organoids, two examples of 3D cell culture models, have become invaluable tools to study the processes that dictate behavior of tissues under physiological and pathological conditions, ...

All animal studies were performed according to protocols approved by the University Committee on Animal Resources at the University of Rochester Medical ...