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Cholesterol crawls

A study tracking cholesterol movement within membranes suggests that it travels more slowly than expected.

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  1. Garg, S., Porcar, L., Woodka, A. C., Butler, P. D. & Perez-Salas, U. Biophys. J. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2011.06.014 (2011).

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Fleming, N. Cholesterol crawls. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.424

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