Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Drives Skin Barrier Formation (3 of 3) (VIDEO)

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Disassembly of liquid-like droplets (green) is coupled to the loss of nuclei (magenta) in skin. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 13 March issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by F. Garcia Quiroz at The Rockefeller University in New York, NY and colleagues was titled, "Liquid-liquid phase separation drives skin barrier formation."

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[Credit: Felipe G. Quiroz and Elaine Fuchs at Rockefeller University]

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