Team develops artificial cells to study molecular crowding and gene expression
Sunday, July 14, 2013 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
The interior of a living cell is a crowded place, with proteins and other macromolecules packed tightly together. A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University has approximated this molecular crowding in an artificial cellular system and found that tight quarters help the process of gene expression, especially when other conditions are less than ideal.