Opening up a cellular black box

An image showing a cell

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Working out how biomolecular condensates work may reveal a lot about the success or failure of different drugs

Anyone who really knows anything about cell biology will freely admit that we don’t know very much about cell biology. The latest realisation in this line has been developing over the last few years: it seems that there is a complete system of organising cellular contents and processes that we hadn’t really caught on to.