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How secret conversations inside cells are transforming biology

Organelles — the cell’s workhorses — mingle far more than scientists ever appreciated.
  1. Elie Dolgin

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Nobody paid much attention to Jean Vance 30 years ago, when she discovered something fundamental about the building blocks inside cells. She even doubted herself, at first.

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Nature 567, 162-164 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00792-9

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  • Clarification 27 March 2019: This story has been modified to make clear that the 2017 study from DeCamilli was co-led by Yale cell biologist Karin Reinisch.

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