Researchers discovered that epithelial cells that line human skin are able to communicate danger to the body through a silent ...

Skin Cells Communicate by 'Screaming' With Each Other Over Long Distances During Injuries, Say Scientists Experts continually are trying to understand how the human body responds to stimuli. Over the ...

Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists from the University of ...

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells—which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities—are mute, serving ...

In this interview Prof. Dr. Kristina Kusche-Vihrog speaks about the nanomechanics of living cells and their implications for ...

Scientists discover "electric spiking" communication in previously thought to be mute cells, paving the way for bioelectric ...

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This 'barrier' tissue performs its function thanks to specialized structures called 'junctions'. They ensure cell cohesion and regulate ...

In this newly published research, we were able to show that even epithelial cells use bioelectricity to coordinate with their ...

There are three main types of ovarian cancer: epithelial, germ cell, and stromal. Learn about each type’s defining ...

Epithelial cells "talk" to each other with slow electrical signals, and "scream" to their neighbors when injured, new ...

We found that wounded epithelial cells can send bioelectric signals to neighboring cells over distances more than 40 times their body length with voltages similar to those of neurons. The shapes ...