Scientists watch membrane fission in real time
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 13:50
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved one of biology's neatest little tricks: they have discovered how a cell's outer membrane pinches a little pouch from itself to bring molecules outside the cell inside—without making holes that leak fluid from either side of the membrane.
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