Life has evolved elaborate means of communicating essential chemical information across cell membranes. Inspired by biology, two new artificial mechanisms have now been developed that use synthetic messenger molecules to relay chemical signals into or across lipid membranes.
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Cockroft, S. Membrane messengers. Nature Chem 9, 406–407 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2775
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