Phase separation problems with proteins in skin found to account for some skin diseases

Friday, March 13, 2020 - 10:00 in Biology & Nature

A team of researchers at Rockefeller University has found that phase separation problems with proteins in the skin may account for the development of some skin diseases. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their study of liquid-liquid phase separation in mouse tissue and what they found. Arpan Rai and Lucas Pelkmans with the University of Zurich have published a Perspective piece discussing the work done by the team in New York in the same journal issue.

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