The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

Observations of electrical signal propagation across colonies of epithelial cells suggest they may be able to communicate, ...

A Japanese patient paralyzed for years can now stand unaided after participating in a groundbreaking clinical trial using ...

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...

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

Scientists have identified a protein sensor in intestinal neurons that responds to pressure, inflammation to stimulate the ...

Researchers have used genetic tools to investigate how specific nerve cells in the brain respond after a spinal cord injury.

Cornell research could rebrand bone as an extension of the nervous system and reshape the understanding of its cellular ...