Granick and Yu used an epithelial-cell-coated chip with 60 precisely placed electrodes to eavesdrop. Yu, a cell-culture expert, grew a single layer of human epithelial cells on the chip ...

Acquisition of invasive and metastatic capabilities is frequently associated with loss of cell–cell adhesion. One of the major constituents of the cell-adhesion complex in epithelial cells is E ...

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.