Jeanna bryner livescience managing editor new york
Jeanna bryner livescience managing editor new york ballantine...
Jeanna bryner livescience managing editor new york times
Mysterious Blobs, Green Monsters and the Space Junk Crisis
Do you remember learning about cell diagrams in high school biology? The cell wall, the organelles, the nucleus. The real picture is turning out to be much more complicated, and interesting, than we were taught.
Cells are filled with teensy, phase-shifting blobs that often contain protein and RNA, and in the past several years they’ve taken over cellular biology.
Jeanna bryner livescience managing editor new york
In our cover story, science writer Philip Ball dives into the world of these specks, known as biomolecular condensates, which play astounding roles in cellular functioning across all domains of life. But when they go awry, researchers suspect they may lead to the tangled protein clumps behind some neurodegenerative diseases.
Scientists are now looking into just how these blobs tick, what forms they take and how they might be leveraged for medical advances.
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