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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Caption

Membraneless droplets formed when a polymer called polyethylene glycol and a protein called bovine serum albumin are combined in a buffer. When the researchers added the enzyme lactate dehydrogenase (red) to the solution, it was taken up by the droplets and initiated a reaction inside them.

Credit

OIST Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit

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