Quiescence in melanoma is not a rare and static state but a dynamic and reversible condition accessible to most tumor cells, ...

For centuries, philosophers and healers alike have speculated about how thoughts, emotions, and consciousness exert tangible effects on the physical body.

To explain this, we hypothesise that, as the epithelial cells grow out of the islands of stem cell containing limbal transplants and form a confluent and stratified corneal epithelial layer by 6 weeks ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a previously unknown process used by epithelial cells to alleviate ...

Transplantation of amniotic membrane to provide a substrate for regenerating epithelial cells has been found to be effective in reconstructing the corneal surface in rabbits. 13 Transplantation of ...

Heart muscle cells do something similar, issuing electrical “heave-ho” signals that make the organ beat. Skin and other epithelial cells, however, were thought to be silent; they form barrier ...

Cells once thought passive are now seen as sculptors. Their choreography may explain how tissues form and fail. A new study ...

The discovery of an unknown organelle inside our cells could open the door to new treatments for devastating inherited ...

New research by Sumeda Nandadasa, Ph.D., reveals how a key protein associated with Meckel-Gruber syndrome, nephronophthisis, ...

How do breast cancer cells bypass the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to colonize the brain? This study uncovers a ...