Scientists in Tokyo have developed a groundbreaking, label-free method to identify aging human cells using electric fields.

"We've known that senescent skin cells are different from senescent immune cells or senescent muscle cells. But within a cell type, senescent cells are often considered the same -- in essence ...

Your skin is made up of many different types of cells. When the DNA inside these cells becomes damaged, they can become cancerous. The type of skin cancer you develop depends on the type of cell ...

Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire ...

Skin cancer -- the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in your skin -- is the most common of all human cancers. About 1 in 5 Americans will get some type of skin cancer in their lifetime, and ...

But each type of cancer originates in a different kind of skin cell and develops in a unique way. Each also varies in how likely it is to spread to other parts of the body — a dangerous progression.

Skin cancer doesn’t follow a uniform growth pattern. The rate at which cancerous cells multiply and spread depends on several key factors, with the specific type of cancer being the most ...

Looking deep within mammalian spit-producing glands, scientists were recently surprised to find an ancient cell type long thought to exist primarily in the slimy skin of frogs and fish.

Skin cancer is cancer that begins in skin cells and typically causes unusual growth or changes. Some types of skin cancer can spread to other parts of the body. Skin cancer is the most common form ...

Basal cell carcinoma, which accounts for nearly ... reddish patches on sun-exposed skin that may scratch off but grow back. The other type of skin cancer, melanoma, is a potentially aggressive ...