How Nature Controls Traffic on the Surface of Cells

Like a busy interchange, the surface of every living cell hums with activity. Proteins and lipids are constantly in motion, detecting, processing, and responding to signals from the outside world. They interact and move along a surface called the plasma membrane, a complex fluid barrier that separates the inside of a cell from everything else.In research that will soon be published in the American Physical Society's Physical Review X, an interdisciplinary team of scientists from Colorado State U...