With Speedy Couriers In The Cell, Nature Shows Nanotechnologists How It’s Done

With Speedy Couriers In The Cell, Nature Shows Nanotechnologists How It’s Done
Every single one of our cells contains so-called motor proteins that transport important substances from one location to another. However, very little is known about how exactly these transport processes occur. Biophysicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) have now succeeded in explaining fundamental functions of a particularly …

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