Molecular freight: Synthetic nanoscale transport system modeled on nature
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 07:21
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just like our roads, there is a lot of traffic within the cells in our bodies, because cell components, messenger molecules, and enzymes must also be brought to the right places in the cell. One of these transportation systems functions like a kind of railway: a system of molecular tracks is used to transport vesicles and their contents to their target destinations.