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Finally it should be mentioned that diffusion-reaction mechanisms are not only
prominent for solute transport inside the carrier, also inside a cell these mecha-
nisms are important for proper cell functioning (for example in signal propagation
[ 59 ]). Information generation by the use of solute gradients is accordingly a widely
conserved mechanism in biology, operating at multiple scales of organization [ 87 ].
This scale-invariant principle holds great promise by extending the applicability of
both models and imaging techniques that were described within this chapter.

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