Cancer begins when mutations in specific genes override the body’s built-in controls on cell division, allowing rogue cells ...

On Thursday, Feb. 19, Ali May, an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented her research ...

In a US study of over 20 million patients, seborrheic dermatitis showed significant associations with multiple epithelial barrier diseases (EBDs), including various skin, gastrointestinal, and ocular ...

In Sarah Yuska’s sixth-grade science class at Monocacy Middle School in Frederick, Maryland, students are just finishing up learning about body systems—respiratory, circulatory, skeletal, and so on.

Epithelial cells line the body’s surfaces to protect against physical damage, pathogens, and dehydration. These cells play key roles in absorbing nutrients and removing waste products, as well as ...

The Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Aptamers and Theranostics, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310022, China School of ...

Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease of lung parenchymal scarring that is triggered by repeated microinjury to a vulnerable alveolar epithelium. It is increasingly ...

Major Finding: A cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF)–epithelial cell niche shields squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) from antitumor immune responses. Concept: Epithelial JAG1–NOTCH1 signaling promotes the ...

What if the secret to curing baldness has been hiding in your hair all along? University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a little-known group of stem cells in hair follicles ...

Dry eye disease symptoms are more severe in patients with thicker corneal epithelia and thinner stroma. Severity of dry eye disease (DED) symptoms is linked with corneal epithelial thickness and ...

This important study analyzes in an original way how tension pattern dynamics can reveal the contribution of active versus passive intercalation during tissue elongation. The authors develop a ...