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

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

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

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

Until now, skin cells have been viewed as barriers that can respond to electric stimuli. Turns out, they also generate ...

Medically reviewed by Renita White, MD Cancer that develops in the ovaries (the egg-producing reproductive organs) is ...

Researchers successfully pulled off the first eye stem cell transplants to help heal cornea damage, and the results speak for ...

For a long time, it was believed that only nerve and heart cells utilized electrical impulses for communication, while epithelial cells which form the linings of human skin, organs, and body cavities ...

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, ...

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of ...

Team from UMass Amherst uncovers communication by “electric spiking” in cells once thought to be mute, which could enable bioelectric applications “Epithelial cells do things that no one has ...