'Lava Lamp' Vesicles Show How Cells Could Self-organize (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

'Lava Lamp' Vesicles Show How Cells Could Self-organize

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Polymers that repel each other can spontaneously phase-separate inside artificial vesicles, like oils in a lava lamp. Interaction between droplets and the cell wall limits the size of the droplets and causes bubbling of the outside of the membrane.

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Wan-Chih Su, UC Davis

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