As bioengineers, we became interested in the epithelial cells that make up human skin and the outer layer of people’s intestinal tissues. These cells aren’t known to be able to generate bioelectricity ...

Observations of electrical signal propagation across colonies of epithelial cells suggest they may be able to communicate, ...

Now, US researchers have discovered that the epithelial cells that line our skin and organs are able to signal the same way ...

Representative immunofluorescence images showing normal oral epithelial cells (left) and early stages of oral cancer (right, showing blue cells invading the stroma) just 20 days after activation ...

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, ...

which is capable of providing morphological information about epithelial cells in situ. In contrast to conventional images of cells or tissues, the LSS-based imaging provides quantitative images ...

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 ...