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They then used a laser to simulate an injury on the artificial skin and were able to observe the wounded skin cells producing electric signals similar to the ones produced by neurons at a slower pace.

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The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

A Walmart employee shot and killed a co-worker inside a Georgia store and wounded a person outside early Friday morning while the business was closed to the public, authorities said ...

A U.S. Marine wounded in the Iraqi war said Thursday he was surprised by the amount of Iraqi resistance, and an Army sergeant said he thought he was going to die in the fighting. "When it comes to ...

Two or three wounded at a time were squeezed onto gurneys and sped off to surgery, Rokadiya said. He scrawled notes on slips of paper or directly on the patient’s skin – this one to surgery ...

The 14 Palestinian emergency workers had been missing for a week when U.N. and civil defense personnel found them late last ...

Some animals, like salamanders, can completely regenerate wounded skin, leaving no scars behind. Humans can also do this, but only as fetuses, during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.