Columbia Scientists Find Long-Elusive Protein; Discovery Will Enable New Investigations into Cell Biology and Disease

Your body is comprised of roughly 37 trillion cells. If you peer inside any one of them, what you see would resemble a city: highways with tiny cargo, power plants releasing energy and elaborate farms that keep the cell fed. Making these cellular cities thrive requires a special kind of protein that physically links different parts of the cell together. Copies of this protein, placed at hundreds of locations, serve as a decentralized communications network — a high-speed internet of miniature proportions. Read the full article