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Molecular Messengers

At the British Association meeting at Nottingham in September 1966, the Zoology section held a symposium on the regulating mechanism of living cells. Most often this seems to depend on the transfer of specific molecules from one place in the cell to another and from one cell to another. The survey which follows is partly based on the discussion at Nottingham.

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BARRINGTON, E. Molecular Messengers. Nature 213, 548–551 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213548a0

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