The authors see the newly developed synthetic host as a city. On the one hand, typical cellular processes — seen as encapsulated, isolated, and made up of non-interchangeable elements — are represented as repetitive structures: squared, isolated blocks which are always fenced, just like membranous organelles. On the other hand, the image highlights the making of a new organelle — a new building that is not fenced — which is accessible to the rest of the city while having its own identity, a building which is more dynamic and flexible. Credit: Gemma Estrada Girona
Scientists create membraneless organelle to build proteins in living cell. For the first time, scientists have engineered the complex biological process of translation into a designer organelle in a living mammalian cell...
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