A Jacobs School researcher is focused on learning more about how tight junctions form naturally — and how their breakdown can lead to disease.

Barriers between stem cells play a crucial role in human development—and offer a new potential route for fertility treatment SAN FRANCISCO, CA—As a human embryo grows, a set of molecules directs cells ...

New research from Oregon Health & Science University for the first time reveals the function of a little-understood junction between cells in the brain that could have important treatment implications ...

Some cells, such as immune cells, are highly mobile—they constantly remodel their shape, migrate toward a wound that needs to ...