Cellular structure without a membrane: Researcher discusses how synapses use liquids to create functional separations

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Mar 7, 2025, 12:54 pm286 ptsTop
The laboratory of Ege Kavalali, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, published a paper in Nature Communications that determined that liquid-liquid phase separation plays a key role within the nanostructure of synapses, and that its disruption affects evoked but not spontaneous…

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