Objective Diverticular disease is a common complex disorder characterised by mucosal outpouchings of the colonic wall that manifests through complications such as diverticulitis, perforation and ...

Vasculitides comprise a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders, occurring as primary or secondary to a broad variety of systemic infectious, malignant or connective tissue diseases. The latter ...

We present a 33-year-old woman with anti-U1 ribonucleoprotein antibody positive mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) since the age of 13. Predominant features were of inflammatory arthritis, Raynaud ...

Connective tissue diseases are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders that affect any of the body's connective tissues. These disorders can be inherited or acquired, and can present with a ...

Tissue engineering is a set of methods that can replace or repair damaged or diseased tissues with natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic tissue mimics. These mimics can either be fully functional ...

A 19-year-old girl from Essex died after pain across her body—stomach, back, arms, legs, and even during her periods—was dismissed by a doctor, who advised her to take painkillers. Isobel Allen was ...

High-connectivity metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are of great importance in reticular chemistry because of the designed synthesis by judicious selection of organic and inorganic building blocks.

Bright-field microscopy (BFM) encrypts the optical transillumination profile of the transmitted light attenuated by the complex micro-structural tissue convolutions, manifested by the dense and ...