The Hudson River Park Trust – Research Alliance Scholars Program is rooted in the Park’s rich history as a 550-acre estuarine sanctuary stretching from Chambers Street to W 59th Street in Manhattan.

Severe COVID or flu may quietly raise lung cancer risk—but vaccines appear to stop the damage before it starts.

Scientists have made a major breakthrough by successfully growing fully functional hair follicles in the lab, bringing us ...

A team of researchers led by Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh has been awarded $18.2 million in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop a ...

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the body's organs—can respond to death and destruction with a burst of ...

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 ...

Macromolecular Chemistry, Department of Chemistry–Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 538, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, 751 85 ...

This useful study describes a physical mechanism for the emergence of spiral patterns in the outer epithelial layer of the mammalian cornea independent of pre-patterning or guidance cues, using an ...

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 ...

Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a progressive and lethal interstitial lung disease characterized by aberrant scar formation and destruction of alveolar architecture. Dysfunctional alveolar epithelial cells ...

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, ...