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What Can We Learn From African Apes About Our “Second Genome”?

         “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” T.  Dolzhansy (Russian Geneticist)          “We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom r ...

Blog Post - Akiva Gross - Feb 15 2015 - 10:03pm - 0 attachments

Epithelial Cells: Forcing Wounds To Close

... (NUS) has revealed the mechanical forces that drive epithelial wound healing in the absence of cell supporting environment. This ... National University of Singapore Fortunately, epithelial cell sheets are self-repairing. The moment the integrity of the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2015 - 6:55pm - 0 attachments

Skin Wounds: How Epithelial Cell Sheets Force Them To Close

... the longer wounds remain open.  Fortunately, epithelial cell sheets are self-repairing. The moment the integrity of the ... A new study has revealed the mechanical forces that drive epithelial wound healing in the absence of cell supporting environment.  ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2015 - 10:27am - 0 attachments

Notch Signaling: How Cancer Turns Good Cells To The Dark Side

... the primary agents of metastasis are clusters of hybrid epithelial (nonmobile) and mesenchymal (migrating) cells," Ben-Jacob said. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2015 - 6:28pm - 0 attachments

Pancreatic Cancer May Be Spread By Survival Mechanism

... These microscopic lesions develop primarily from the epithelial cells that line the ducts in the exocrine pancreas that become ... tools, researchers have tracked transformed pancreatic epithelial cells in real time. This revealed that transformed cells (expressing ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 22 2015 - 9:00am - 0 attachments

Hyaluronon Identified As Key Substance That Protects Against Pre-term Birth

... tract. "We found that HA is required to allow the epithelial lining of the reproductive tract to serve as the first line of ... Rather, the substance plays an important barrier role in epithelial cells of the lower reproductive tract and in so doing protects ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2015 - 4:59pm - 0 attachments

Fat Cells Under The Skin Help Protect Us From Bacteria

... rapidly increase in number. That work is typically done by epithelial cells, mast cells and leukocytes residing in the area of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2015 - 10:00am - 0 attachments

Hair Growth With A Little Help From Macrophages - And Skin Regeneration

... are Mirna Perez-Moreno and Donatello Castellana, from the Epithelial Cell Biology Group of the BBVA Foundation-CNIO Cancer Cell Biology ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2014 - 4:30pm - 0 attachments

Fluorescence Microscopy: New 2-D Images Can Detect Cancer Risk

... in e-cadherin, an adhesion protein of epithelial cells (those covering the surfaces and inside of the body). E-cadherin holds epithelial cells together by lying across the cell membrane, one end attached ... neighboring cells and the other to the skeleton of the epithelial cell. When e-cadherin stops working, the cells become loose. In the ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Dec 1 2014 - 11:19am - 0 attachments

Giving Norovirus The Heave Ho?

... HBGA receptors do not reside on the surface of intestinal epithelial cells. They are, in fact, found on the surface of bacteria that ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Nov 12 2014 - 3:05pm - 0 attachments