A compositional view comparing modern biological condensates and primitive phase‐separated compartments Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a process that often occurs due to binding between oppositely charged biopolymers, and has gained increasing attention recently due to their ubiquity in biolo....

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Construction of complex bacteriogenic protocells from living material assembly - Nature Protocols This protocol describes how to prepare membrane-bound, complex protocells with life-like capabilities by using building blocks from two distinct bacterial colonies spatially segregated within individu...

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