Blog Post Image: Water in cells behaves in complex and intricate ways

An illustration of crowded lyzozyme proteins (magenta) and droplets of water (blue.) University of Michigan chemistry professors have discovered that when proteins in a cell reach a certain concentration — and distance from each other — the surrounding water dramatically slows down. The findings could provide insights into why proteins clump together in diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Image credit: Kevin Kubarych

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