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by ericdfoley 629 days ago
Everything around the topic of condensates, liquid-liquid phase separation, stress granules, etc. is quite interesting. And it seems like the importance of condensates and related phenomena has only been really understood within the past decade or so.

Protein condensates also play a role in several neurodegenerative diseases like ALS. See e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-neuroscience/a....

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The topic was hyped a few years ago, for example on https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-newfound-source-of-cellular...