Christopher A. Baker (University of Tennessee)

Microfluidics in cell-to-cell signalling measurements

30 June 2016 | By Christopher A. Baker (University of Tennessee), Laura D. Casto (University of Tennessee)

Hormones are secreted molecules that carry biological information between cells. This type of cell-to-cell communication is vital to human life, and its dysregulation often underlies disease. In fact, the largest known class of cell surface receptors involved in hormone communication, G-protein coupled receptors, are also the largest class of known…