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 wounded skin cells ...

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

We found that wounded epithelial cells can send bioelectric ... demonstrated that it’s possible to enhance wound healing in skin and intestinal tissues by electrically stimulating them.