Plant-based foods are expanding rapidly, but they pose distinctive challenges for both probiotic delivery and shelf-life stabilization. Unlike dairy, plant ...

Standard cell cultures are performed in aqueous media with a low macromolecule concentration compared to tissue microenvironment. In macromolecular crowding (MMC) experiments, synthetic polymeric ...

The extracellular matrix or ‘matrix’ is the ubiquitous, acellular component in all tissues and organs of the body. Matrix molecules are typically secreted and assembled into insoluble entities ...