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Phase separation
In phase separation, a single homogenous mixture is chemically segregated into two distinct phases, driven by an associated reduction in free energy. A common example of this is the separation of oil and water.
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MAR 11, 2024
Immunology
The rapid growth of the field of proteomics since the early 2000s has been closely tied to the technological advancement
...
Sponsored By:
Quantum-Si
NOV 16, 2023
Neuroscience
Cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol (CBG) may offer potential pain management for bone fracture patients. A Penn State Un
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
NOV 08, 2023
Cancer
Adoptive cell therapy has emerged as a promising alternative treatment for hematological and solid cancers, with CAR-T t
...
Sponsored By:
Sino Biological
NOV 13, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
When certain things in the cellular environment change, such as a dramatic increase in salt or sugar levels, it can caus
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 08, 2022
Immunology
One of the primary objectives for the application of flow cytometry in any testing environment should be measurement ass
...
Sponsored By:
Slingshot Biosciences, Inc.
AUG 03, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Our genome is huge. It's made up of about 3 billion base pairs, and if the whole molecule was stretched to its full leng
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 01, 2022
Cancer
A growing number of states have legalized marijuana for medical and/or recreational purposes. Cannabis is a plant
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
JUL 17, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Biomolecular condensates can concentrate important components of the cell together. But other structures form too.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 21, 2022
Cancer
Like all cancers, prostate cancer has many classifications and subtypes. One such type is metastatic, hormone-sensitive
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
MAR 15, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
On Monday, March 14, the biotech company Moderna announced that the first participant had been dosed with a ne
...
Written By:
J. Bryce Ortiz
NOV 16, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Oil and water are both liquids, but they don't mix well, demonstrating a phenomenon known as liquid-liquid phase separat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
With time lapse photography, scientists have now learned more about the symmetry of sea stars. This work could tell us m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 09, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
In diagrams of cells, DNA is usually shown as a mass in the cell's nucleus, like a bowl of ramen noodles. But researcher
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 13, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Some life forms can enter a kind of dormant state, where they wait for the right conditions so they can reemerge; fungi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 28, 2021
Health & Medicine
Researchers at the University of California at San Diego plan to study whether CBD oil can be of help for children with
...
Written By:
Angela Dowden
JUN 17, 2021
Drug Discovery & Development
The FDA recently approved a new drug known as Adulhelm, or aducanumab, to treat Alzheimer’s disease. The first new
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAR 15, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells are packed full of organelles and molecules like proteins floating in a liquid known as cytoplasm. In recent years
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 07, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
If you've ever seen a video of a sperm cell fertilizing an egg cell, you've probably noticed the huge size difference. T
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 04, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Just like oil and water are both liquids but they don't coalesce into one, it's thought that cells use phase separation
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 26, 2020
Space & Astronomy
At the end of their life cycle, stars like our sun become 'white dwarfs'. Cooling over billions of years from th
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
SEP 14, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
It was once thought that cellular machines called organelles, which are structures bound by membranes, directed most of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 18, 2020
Microbiology
The word pesto comes from the Genovese word pestâ (pestare in Italian) which means “to pound” o
...
AUG 17, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
New research published in Nature documents evidence for a liquid-to-liquid transition in sulfur, a first-order phase tra
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 02, 2020
Microbiology
Cells can be grouped into two general categories: prokaryotic, which make up microbes like bacteria and archaea, or euka
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch