Now, we may know why zombie skin cells have this double agent-esque existence. Not all senescent skin cells are the same.

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

Senescent skin cells—sometimes dubbed “zombie cells”—have long posed a paradox. These cells, which stop dividing yet refuse ...

Not all zombie skin cells are the same. New research reveals three unique subtypes with different roles in aging and disease, ...

in which autoantibodies react with the cell–cell adhesion structures, desmosomes, causing blisters and erosions on the oral mucosa and skin. Pemphigus is divided into two major subtypes ...

For over 150 years, scientists have known that wounds alter electric fields across skin cells, says cell biologist Min Zhao of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. But they didn ...

Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how skin and nerve cells interact. “The skin is basically the window to the outside,” said Kathryn Albers, a neuroscientist at the University of ...

Adherens junctions (red dots) join the actin filaments of neighboring cells together. Desmosomes are even stronger connections that join the intermediate filaments of neighboring cells.

And instead of using neurotransmitters like neurons, these skin cells send waves of calcium ions across the tissue — a process that can last up to five hours and reach areas well beyond the ...