Cells Send Signals Via Membrane Nanotubes

URL

http://www.sciencentechnologyupdates.com/2011/05/cells-send-signals-via-membrane.html

Description

For nearly ten years, researchers have known that cells can "grow" ultra-thin tubes named tunnelling nanotubes (TNTs) between one another. These nanotubes -- the length of two to three cells and just 1/500th the thickness of a human hair -- are connections that develop between nearly all cell types to form a communication channel different from any previously known mechanisms.