OT: Cells may possess hidden communication system

[Jan Panteltje]

Cells may possess hidden communication system
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240424160454.htm
New research finds ion gradients across membranes form an information network for rapid cellular decision-making independent of DNA
Date:
April 24, 2024
Source:
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Seems logical to me...

[John Larkin]

Post by Jan Panteltje
Cells may possess hidden communication system
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240424160454.htm
New research finds ion gradients across membranes form an information network for rapid cellular decision-making independent of DNA
April 24, 2024
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Seems logical to me...

"For decades, scientists have viewed DNA as the sole source of
cellular information."

Well, some of the dumber ones did. Cellular function studies have a
long and honored history of stupidity.

[Bill Sloman]

Post by John Larkin

Post by Jan Panteltje
Cells may possess hidden communication system
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240424160454.htm
New research finds ion gradients across membranes form an information network for rapid cellular decision-making independent of DNA
April 24, 2024
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Seems logical to me...

"For decades, scientists have viewed DNA as the sole source of
cellular information."
Well, some of the dumber ones did. Cellular function studies have a
long and honored history of stupidity.

Nerve cells communicate with with one another by fiddling local
potassium to sodium ion ratios. It changes the voltage difference across
the cell-to-cell junctions. The signals can propagate fairly fast.

https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s1/chapter03.html

"In fact, the propagation velocity of the action potentials in nerves
can vary from 100 meters per second (580 miles per hour) to less than a
tenth of a meter per second (0.22 miles per hour)."

DNA doesn't come into it (or at least not directly).

Science daily was suggesting that regular cells use a similar sort of
system for communicating with their near neighbours. Why this would be a
"hidden communication system" escapes me. If nobody looked for it, it
wouldn't have to be "hidden" to be unknown.