When two cells "talk" to each other, they often do so through tiny channels called electrical synapses. Unlike chemical synapses, these so-called gap junctions enable the direct exchange of ...

Cell-to-cell communication is essential throughout all forms and stages of life, and many communication mechanisms are well ...

Communication is key. Take relationships, for example. When communication breaks down, the results can be cancerous. Like in society, communication between the cells of our body is critical, as Janis ...

Messenger RNA can travel between different types of stem cells through tunnel-like structures, as revealed by a new study. By studying interactions between mouse and human stem cells, they discovered ...

The mystery of early embryonic communication is starting to be unraveled thanks to a new stem cell-based model.

Launching a company in today’s competitive (and litigious) spatial biology market may seem risky. But the new company, Moleculent, located in Stockholm, Sweden, has a different focus than the spatial ...

An international team led by Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, has used state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy to visualize electrical synapses (gap junctions) inside living cells. In doing so, ...