Researchers have discovered a new way that epithelial cells, which form layers in organs like the skin and stomach, attach to one another, and how they perceive growth signals at these attachments ...

“The epithelial cells are making a signal kind of like a scream: ‘We got injured, we need repair, you need to come over here,’” says Sun-Min Yu, an engineer at the University of ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Animal organs are enclosed by a specialized epithelial layer. Epithelial cells typically exhibit apicobasal polarity: their apical surfaces contact other cells or the environment ...