Though it is understandable that a biology question may be a bit out of range at HN, but maybe you can repurpose some of the data collection and thought algorithms for this question or have a chance to ask someone experienced in biotech etc.<p>Some time ago I asked a question at biology stackexchenge [1], and it seems it hadn't received a comprehensive answer.<p>Additional context is that there are ~10K biochemical reactions happening in ~every cell per second and for a signalling molecule to get to its target it needs to get through a rather dense intercellular milieu.<p>[1] https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/88735/how-do-signalling-molecules-find-their-receptors-at-large-distances
specific signaling, is transported from origin to insertion point by way of
~ persistent "tracks"<p>[1] below is probably most directly relevent to what your asking, but finer detail is here [2][3]<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracellular_transport" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracellular_transport</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_signaling" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_signaling</a><p>[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_transduction" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_transduction</a>