Liquid condensates come of age: Nanoscale domains at the crossroads of stress and disease

Nils G. Walter, Bisal Halder · 2026

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Nils Walter and Bisal Halder review tiny liquid drops that form inside cells with no skin around them. The review appeared in 2026. Cells sort their parts into rooms, some walled by skins and some formed by weak links among proteins and RNA. The wall-free drops can shift their mix in seconds.

Such drops handle stress tasks and gene control in the cell core and body. The review traces how the field grew from fixed rooms to these fluid drops. It weighs how drops help cells adapt to stress, and how faults in them may feed disease. Small-scale views of the drops get close care in the text.

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CREATORNils G. Walter, Bisal Halder
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE13 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13570188

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