Tag: cytoplasm
The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”
There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with?
Nuclear Pore Complex Comes into Focus
Super-resolution microscopy is letting us peer even closer into the cell’s secrets, revealing awesome wonders.
Molecular Machine Safari
Take a tour of molecular machines working in the cell and see what new things scientists have found out about them.
Excerpt — The Infinite Complexity of Cells
The unique powers of cells — their “demonic catalytic powers” — and their fitness to play their unique role as the building blocks of all life are a wonder.
Allostery: How Cells Do Remote Control
Cells have perfected action at a distance: not by magic, but by control of distant sites through carefully arranged functional intermediates.