UCI researchers eavesdrop on cellular conversations
E-Mail IMAGE: Overview of how CellChat can convert "molecular language " of cells into the translation that is interpretable by researchers. view more Credit: Suoqin Jin, Qing Nie & Maksim Plikus / UCI Irvine, Calif. -- An interdisciplinary team of biologists and mathematicians at the University of California, Irvine has developed a new tool to help decipher the language cells use to communicate with one another. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, the researchers introduce CellChat, a computational platform that enables the decoding of signaling molecules that...