Periodontitis is driven not only by bacteria but by how the gingival epithelium responds to them. This study maps that ...

A new review explains how barrier disruption, alarmin release and epithelial repair programs drive asthma pathology and may offer new intervention targets.

Epidermal stem cells oversee the skin’s ability to respond to stressors from the outside world and then return to a steady ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a previously unknown process used by epithelial cells to alleviate epithelial tissue crowding and avoid cell damage and loss, according to a recent ...

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in women. It is a highly variable disease, defined as a malignancy of the epithelial ducts in breast tissue.

Scientists discovered that injured epithelial cells send slow electrical “screams” to neighboring cells, sometimes communicating for more than five hours across surprisingly large distances. The ...