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Does queuing occur when cells communicate?

• gagege 10y ago
  Sort of. AFAIK, cells basically just send out signals and the nearest available cell with a compatible protein that can "read" the signal picks it up.
  • huuu 10y ago
    Well I asked because lets say queuing does not occur, then you might want to design a system that can send and receive messages in without queue.
    • gagege 10y ago
      Definitely. Designing a system where the order of procedures is not certain would be a very interesting challenge and could be very useful.
    • TickleSteve 10y ago
      ...that would be a function call (if synchronous) and a simple event in the asynchronous case.
  • mercer 10y ago
    That sounds more event-based, no? The cells trigger events, and the compatible proteins are listeners.