The placenta develops over pregnancy to provide oxygen to the fetus, with this oxygen provided by maternal blood via the blood vessels in the uterus. Computational models, with varying complexity, have been derived to understand how the uterus and placenta interact to ensure a healthy pregnancy, and here we review these computational approaches with a view to translating new physiological insights into the clinic.

The recently developed single‐cell proteomic technologies will bring new insights into signaling network regulation, cell heterogeneity, tissue architecture, disease diagnosis, and treatment monitoring.

Chronic viral infections, a diet rich in fat and alcohol abuse are responsible of chronic liver disease which progresses from fibrosis, to cirrhosis and eventually may cause hepatocellular carcinoma. Understanding the mechanism of liver fibrosis and its clinical implications is vital to develop new antifibrotic therapies.

Optogenetic tools provide scientists with versatile strategies with which to manipulate subcellular structure and organization. These strategies have been employed to answer fundamental biological questions and to improve the efficiency of bioengineered cell factories. Created with BioRender.