stem cells communication

Wait, some stem cells use nanotubes to communicate with other cells? Seriously?

July 1, 2015

Ask postdoc Mayu Inaba, who discovered something biologists have mistaken for a speck of dust Certain types of stem cells use microscopic, threadlike nanotubes to communicate with neighboring cells, rather than sending a broadcast signal, researchers at University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have discovered. The fruit-fly research findings, published today (July 1) in Nature, suggest that short-range, cell-to-cell communication may rely on this … more…