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Alliance for cellular signaling: Into unknown territory

Alison Abbott1

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The Alliance for Cellular Signaling is exploring new frontiers, both in fundamental scientific terms and in the way in which research in cell biology is conducted. Alison Abbott reports.

"We are exploring a vast, vast, vast continent," pronounces cell-signalling guru Henry Bourne of the University of California, San Francisco, "and we know only a few ports, a handful of rivers and a couple of mountain ranges."The dark continent that Bourne refers to is the labyrinth of overlapping biochemical signalling networks through which our cells make sense of the diverse internal and external signals that constantly bombard them.