From: “Synthetic cell division via membrane-transforming molecular assemblies”, S. Kretschmer, K.A. Ganzinger, H.G. Franquelim and P. Schwille (2019), BMC Biology 17:43 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0665-1 Cell membranes are the structures that make life possible. They are what keeps a patch of water having all the interesting biologically-important molecules* at high enough concentrations for all the chemical reactions which …
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