As bioengineers, we became interested in the epithelial cells that make up human skin and the outer layer of people’s ...

This chip was coated with a single layer of lab-grown human keratinocytes, the main epithelial cells that make up the ...

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

Granick and Yu used an epithelial-cell-coated chip with 60 precisely placed electrodes to eavesdrop. Yu, a cell-culture expert, grew a single layer of human epithelial cells on the chip, which ...

Roughly 200 million women around the world suffer from endometriosis, a condition that causes tissue from the lining of the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...