Wound healing is an essential biological process that comprises sequential steps aimed at
restoring the architecture and function of damaged cells and tissues. This process begins …

The importance of wound healing to medicine and biology has long been evident, and
consequently, wound healing has been the subject of intense investigation for many years …

Drosophila has long been a successful model organism in multiple biomedical fields. Spatial
gene expression patterns are critical for the understanding of complex pathways and …

Transcriptional enhancers function as docking platforms for combinations of transcription
factors (TFs) to control gene expression. How enhancer sequences determine nucleosome …

Background Repair of skin wounds is essential for animals to survive in a harsh
environment, yet the signaling pathways initiating wound repair in vivo remain little …

Background Wound healing is the first stage of a series of cellular events that are necessary
to initiate a regenerative response. Defective wound healing can block regeneration even in …

Insects and mammals share an ancient innate immune system comprising both humoral and
cellular responses. The insect immune system consists of the fat body, which secretes …

Understanding the molecular basis of wound healing and regeneration in vertebrates is one
of the main challenges in biology and medicine. This understanding will lead to medical …

The barrier epithelia of multicellular organisms frequently come into direct contact with
microorganisms and thus need to fulfill the important task of preventing the penetration of …

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora is an entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) which infects its
host by accessing the hemolymph where it releases endosymbiotic bacteria of the species …