What lava lamps and vinaigrette can teach us about cell biology

Elie Dolgin • March 14, 2018

Like oil in water, the contents of cells can segregate into droplets. It’s called phase separation, and biologists are seeing it everywhere.

Continue reading at Nature.

Fossil of deer antlers
By Elie Dolgin October 8, 2025
It took nearly 50 years to work out the identity of a caribou-like fossil first discovered by construction workers.
By Elie Dolgin September 25, 2025
Language model delivers predictions that rival years of lab work.