How the tilt of a cell-surface receptor prevents cancer
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 06:37
in Biology & Nature
Clear communication between cells is essential to every aspect of the body's internal function. But since cells can't talk, or send emails, how do they communicate? The answer, in a nutshell, is by dispatching signaling molecules that selectively bind to protein receptors on the outer surface of other cells with which they must "talk."