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Cells organize many of their biochemical reactions in non-membrane compartments. Recent evidence has shown that many of these compartments are liquids that form by phase separation from the cytoplasm. Here we discuss the basic physical concepts necessary ...Read More

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Cells organize many of their biochemical reactions in non-membrane compartments. Recent evidence has shown that many of these compartments are liquids that form by phase separat...

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1991
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review
Volume
7
Issue
1
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663-698
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Ronald Ellis, Junying Yuan, H. Robert Horvitz (1991). Mechanisms and Functions of Cell Death. Annual Review of Cell Biology , 7 (1) , 663-698. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.cb.07.110191.003311

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10.1146/annurev.cb.07.110191.003311