Cell biologists report what they believe is the first-ever creation of tiny protein-based gelatin-like clumps called hydrogels inside living cells. The ability to create hydrogels on demand, they say, should advance the long scientific struggle to study the elusive structures -- which form in nature when proteins or other molecules aggregate under certain conditions -- and to uncover their suspected contributions to human diseases.
Cell biologists report what they believe is the first-ever creation of tiny protein-based gelatin-like clumps called hydrogels inside living cells. The ability to create hydrogels on demand, they say, should advance the long scientific struggle to study the elusive structures -- which form in nature when proteins or other molecules aggregate under certain conditions -- and to uncover their suspected contributions to human diseases.
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