The skin is the largest organ in the human body, and its outermost part, called the epidermis, is replenished every three weeks. The cells fueling this renewal of the epidermal stem cells, found in ...

Developmental biologists have discovered that during egg development in fruit flies, intercellular gaps open between epithelial cells in a controlled way at the points where three cells meet. This ...

Connexin 43 (C×43α1) gap junction has been shown to have an essential role in mediating functional coupling of neural crest cells and in modulating neural crest cell migration. Here, we showed that ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found that cells from triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) form direct connections with nearby fat cells to access energy needed ...