Month: January 2025

Dr. Kshitiz publication in Advanced Materials Technologies

January 22, 2025. A collaboration led by Kazunori Hoshino lab in UConn Storrs, Kshitiz lab at CCAM tested how human endometrial cells change their mechanics in anticipation of decidualization. A recent paper published in Advanced Materials Technologies describes how cells become stiffer, but amazingly, when cells from placenta interact with them, they reverse this stiffening.

Dr. Kshitiz’s paper in Cells & Development

January 4, 2025. Kshitiz lab has been drawing parallels between MFI to cancer (which are your own cells transformed) and the non-cancer cells of your body. The paper published in Cells & Development shows how the placental cells reverse the mother’s defenses and let themselves be invaded by the fetal cells. Specifically, the maternal cells lay down a lot of matrix, but the wily placental cells signal to them to reverse these defenses.