Although biologists have learned a lot about how tissues form during development, very little is known about how two cells of the same tissue stay identical for an animal's entire lifetime.

In a finding that directly contradicts the standard biological model of animal cell communication, UCSF scientists have discovered that typical cells in animals have the ability to transmit and ...

These cell lines included primary human airway epithelial cells (HAE) derived from the nasal epithelium and lung-derived cell lines. They used animal cell ... at 37 °C under 5% CO 2.