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Scientists discover "electric spiking" communication in previously thought to be mute cells, paving the way for bioelectric ...

In an international research collaboration involving the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), researchers have produced ...

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR) at the Central Institute of Mental Health ...

Skin Cells Communicate by 'Screaming' With Each Other Over Long Distances During Injuries, Say Scientists Experts continually are trying to understand how the human body responds to stimuli. Over the ...

Park is a senior health correspondent at TIME. David Sinclair is peering at nerve cells chemically reprogrammed to slow the ...

New research reveals that parrots produce speech using brain structures remarkably similar to those in humans.

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, ...

Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...