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

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Now, in a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have overturned this assumption, showing that ...

We found that wounded epithelial cells can send bioelectric signals to neighboring cells over ... Previous work from other researchers had demonstrated that it's possible to enhance wound healing in ...