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or a new understanding of mitochondrial categories according to specialization of function

• partomniscient 2y ago
  ...and also the state of their neighbours which makes me start thinking of Conway's Game of Life...
  • anonymous_sorry 2y ago
    This is quite common in cellular differentiation. Say a tissue needs a few cells of a certain type, roughly evenly spaced throughout. One strategy to achieve this is for all cells in the region to have a tendancy towards developing those characteristics, but also for the quickest to do so to simultaneously produce a messaging molecule that suppresses that tendency in its near neighbours.