Discovery alters understanding of long-distance intercellular communication
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 07:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —In a finding likely to fundamentally reshape biologists' understanding of how vertebrate cells communicate, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the UC-San Francisco have discovered a new type of cellular structure that directly delivers and receives payloads of signaling molecules between distant neighbors in a developing embryo.