Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-talk-in-a-language-that-looks-like-viruses-20180502/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-talk-in-a-language-that-looks-like-viruses-20180502/#respond Wed, 02 May 2018 14:38:54 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=58397 The post Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> For cells, communication is a matter of life and death. The ability to tell other members of your species — or other parts of the body — that food supplies are running low or that an invading pathogen is near can be the difference between survival and extinction. Scientists have known for decades that cells can secrete chemicals into their surroundings, releasing a free-floating message for all to...

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