When stress hits, hair stem cells switch from growing hair to repairing skin, offering new insights into how our bodies ...

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with a history of cutaneous lupus erythematosus are more likely to have high ...

Human papillomaviruses, or HPVs, can cause dangerous infections in the skin and mucous membranes and may lead to cancer.

Human papillomaviruses, or HPVs, can cause dangerous infections in the skin and mucous membranes and may lead to cancer. Vaccines ...

For years, scientists believed that only nerve and heart cells relied on electrical impulses for communication, while epithelial cells, which form the linings of the skin, organs, and body cavities, ...

Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that runs through your body to perform various functions. One such example of this bioelectricity is the nerve signals that power thoughts in ...

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 ...

In a nutshell Researchers discovered that a protein called AP2A1 acts as a master switch controlling whether cells behave ...

What if the secret to curing baldness has been hiding in your hair all along? University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

Abstract Epithelial cells undergo epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) during migration and regain their epithelial phenotype in the post-migration phase (mesenchymal– epithelial transition; MET).

Abstract Keratinocytes, the dominant cell type in the melanoma microenvironment during tumor initiation, exhibit diverse effects on melanoma progression. Using a zebrafish model of melanoma and human ...