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Nature Chemical Biology 2, 568 (1 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/nchembio1106-568

Randy Schekman

Mirella Bucci

Membrane traffic is no different from many other fields in which advances in technology pave the way for advances in our thinking about biological processes. The study of membrane traffic has a history that dates back to the introduction of electron microscopy to the field in the 1960s and 70s and to cell and fractionation techniques before that (Nat.