Cell membranes communicate with other cells and determine what is allowed to enter and exit the cell. (drflannery.com)
The lab that I work in is primarily interested in understanding how and why certain cancers are more likely to spread to the skeleton, and my personal project has focused on uncovering new mechanisms that the cancer cells use to communicate with other cells in the bone. (aaas.org)
I predict we will find that there are programs that link all these cells together, that when a cell is under stress it is communicating with these other cell types, leading to degeneration. (glaucoma.org)