Recently there was an article published titled "Live tumor imaging shows macrophage induction and TMEM-mediated enrichment of cancer stem cells during metastatic dissemination"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27308-2
This article provided evidence for the enrichment of cancer stem cells, near macrophages.
This finding reminds me of the influence of the "environment" on the "system".
For example, an individual, let's say person A has some latent characteristics or personality traits that were never given the opportunity to manifest themselves. However, under changing environmental influences, that particular trait was manifested or enriched for.
Let us take the example of extroversion. Maybe person A is not socially outgoing, avoids crowded events, tends to interact less with other people socially. Person A develops the reputation of an "introvert". But due to technological advancements, person A got the opportunity to express themselves via websites, social media, and so forth. This in turn increased the chances that person A interacts with more like-minded persons who share similar interests. This in turn resulted in person A beginning to express themselves more freely, followed by interaction with others. So the latent characteristic of "extroversion" got manifested in an otherwise introverted person.
Questions: Are cells like humans (or it is the other way around), manifesting latent characteristics in context?
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