There is a cell under test, where the surrounding cells are added together, multiplied by a constant, and used to establish a threshold.
They're the electrical connectors to the surrounding cells.
The chromosomes would burrow into surrounding cells and... who knows?
Instead, reduced firing rates have been observed, and depolarization in one cell seemed to inhibit surrounding cells.
When an adult's spinal cord is cut, the surrounding cells make proteins that block new nerve-cell growth.
If reading continually from one cell, that cell will not fail but rather one of the surrounding cells on a subsequent read.
Signals from the surrounding cells act to specify which fate the teloblasts and their progeny take on.
Any oxygen these blood cells had left soon gets used up by the surrounding cells, so the iron in them turns from red to bluish.
However, from the cells it is impossible to see out at the tower or into any of the surrounding cells.
But in the low-oxygen interior of a tumor, it is activated and kills the surrounding cells.