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Membrane transport

The making of a vesicle

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The transport of molecules from one cellular compartment to another often requires membrane-bounded carriers. New work gives insight into how the shaping of membrane into such vesicles is linked to the selection of cargo.

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Figure 1: Bending membranes.

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