The “summer scaries” may be creeping up on parents as the school year ends and kids settle in for a season change — filled with new caretakers, schedules, activities and more. In fact, a new survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of The Kids Mental Health Foundation reveals, when children are out of school for the summer, half of parents are just as concerned about their child's mental health as they are during the school year, and 1 in 10 are even more concerned. The top worries include increased screen time (38%), boredom and lack of structured activities (34%) and disrupted routines or sleep schedules (26%).

Fibroblasts play a central role in maintaining healthy tissue structures, as well as in the development and progression of diseases. For a long time, these specialised connective tissue cells were thought to represent a single, uniform cell type. A recent publication by researchers at the University of Leipzig Medical Center shows that fibroblasts in human tissue actually consist of distinct populations with specialised functions. This heterogeneity is key to developing targeted therapies in regenerative medicine and in the treatment of diseases. The findings have been published in the renowned journal Nature Cell Biology.