Model tissue system reveals cellular communication via amino acids
Saturday, April 4, 2009 - 10:08
in Health & Medicine
A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Centre for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) has found the first evidence of cell-to-cell communication by amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, rather than by known protein signalling agents such as growth factors or cytokines. Their report will appear in an upcoming issue of the FASEB Journal and has been released online...