Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire chatter all over the nervous system. Heart muscle cells do something similar ...

The human brain, like the brain of other mammals, is known to start developing before birth, via a coordinated sequence of ...

Due to the lack of self-renewal ability of podocytes, mild podocyte depletion triggers replacement and repair processes mostly driven by stem cells or resident parietal epithelial cells (PECs). In ...

Although the corneoscleral limbus is acknowledged as the site of corneal epithelial stem cells no anatomical niche for such cells has yet been described. The authors undertook to re-evaluate the ...

1Laboratory of Tumor Inflammation and Angiogenesis, Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium. 2Laboratory of Tumor Inflammation and Angiogenesis, Center for Cancer Biology, Department of ...

We hypothesized, that IL-22 modulates cell polarity of intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) acting on tight junction assembly. The aim of the study was to investigate IL-22-dependent mechanisms in the ...

And how do lipids know where they belong within the cell? Two new research groups at ... along the shortest path or why soap bubbles are round. While such behavior can often be explained through ...

Here are the top numbers and notes to know from the final round of the PGA Championship. Advertisement 1. When Scottie Scheffler made the turn Sunday at Quail Hollow, a lead he had built up to ...