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

Researchers have successfully developed nerve grafts, currently being trialed as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, that ...

One such example of this bioelectricity is the nerve signals that power thoughts ... we became interested in the epithelial cells that make up human skin and the outer layer of people’s ...

To test whether the neurons were functional, the researchers injected them into the brains of rats treated with a neurotoxin ...

The team repeated the experiments using human skin cells and observed the same results. “When injured, [epithelial cells] 'scream' to their neighbors, slowly, persistently and over surprising ...

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 ...

The paralysed man can stand again after receiving experimental stem cell therapy. He was given an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury.

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should help them understand sensory disorders like those affecting pain perception.

“We tracked how cells coordinated their response,” Yu explained. “It’s a slow-motion, excited conversation.” Unlike the swift neurotransmitter bursts of nerve cells, epithelial cells ...