Ever set off too many of the bitter taste receptors on your tongue? You probably spat out whatever it was in your mouth, and ...

Skin stem cells are multipotent adult stem ... insights into the contribution of mechanical forces produced by epithelial stem cell activity in building surrounding tissues, and the roles of ...

epithelial–mesenchymal interactions are involved. Taylor et al. discussed whether skin has its own distinct stem cell population 1. As the authors used newborn skin, which is still growing ...

The key to reversing cellular aging may lie in a protein responsible for toggling cells between a "young" and an "old" state.

The cornea is the clear, outermost layer of the eye. Its outer border, the limbus, contains a large volume of healthy stem ...

Italian researchers working in Texas have discovered the driver of aggressive tumours like that of the pancreas, saying that ...

Signet cells are a type of epithelial cell called glandular cells. Epithelial tissue is skin tissue, covering and lining the body both inside and out. Signet cell cancer is also called signet ring ...

Mechanosensing is like a touchscreen on a smartphone. When you press on the screen, sensors detect the pressure and trigger a ...

They facilitate crosstalk between epithelial cells and immune cells ... Some of the commonly used tests include skin-prick test, patch test or direct challenge with an allergen.