Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered that epithelial cells communicate using slow electrical signals, a previously unknown ability. Their study, published in PNAS, ...

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, ...

To our surprise, however, we found that wounded epithelial cells can propagate electrical signals across dozens of cells that persist for several hours. In this newly published research ...

Slow, silent 'scream' of epithelial cells detected for first time Date: March 17, 2025 Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst Summary: It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Epithelial cells, previously thought to be silent, have been found to communicate using slow electrical signals, similar to nerve impulses but 1,000 times slower ...

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Engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy Date: March 13, 2025 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell ...

This important study describes a first-in-human trial of autologous p63+ stem cells in patients with idiopathic pulmonary ... REGEND001 treatment and recovered 4-9 hours afterwards. Bloody sputum is ...

However, whether these cells are involved in RA-associated lung and/or airway disease is unknown. Methods: Tph cells in sputum were analyzed by flow cytometry and compared with those in synovial fluid ...