We’ve mapped the Achilles tendon at single-cell resolution 🧬 — revealing 6 fibroblast types with distinct roles across muscle–tendon zones. A new atlas for understanding injury + repair.

Find our more in our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Tendon #CellAtlas #SpatialTranscriptomics

M. V. Franchi et al. offer this #TranslationalPerspective highlighting new insights into acute tendon molecular reprogramming after rupture based on research by Mimpen et al. (2025)✍️

🔗 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Very excited to see this Translational Perspective by Asst Prof @mvfranchi.bsky.social, Dr Christopher Fry, and Prof Michael Kjaer discussing our recent transcriptomics study on the early injury response in human quadriceps tendons in @jphysiol.bsky.social.

If you're interested in the extracellular matrix of soft tissues and the role ECM plays in osteoarthritis then this systematic review is for you!

boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.1...

It is great to finally share our systematic review on structural extracellular matrix components in soft tissues in osteoarthritis!

Congratulations to my co-authors Iwan Raza and @sarahsnelling.bsky.social.

boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.1...

Wonder what it is like to study at @ndorms.bsky.social at the University of Oxford? Here we share some of our experiences from working in an interdisciplinary team with the wonderful @sarahsnelling.bsky.social.

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions!