Organelle Simulated on Microchip for First Time

More and more synthetic versions of key parts of the human cell, including chromosomes, have been developed by scientists in the past decade or so. Now researchers are aiming even higher, developing the first working artificial prototype of an "organ" of a human cell--the Golgi apparatus, which helps modify biomolecules and package them for delivery around the cell. [More]

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