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The Changing Needs of a Cell: No Membrane? No Problem! – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

The Changing Needs of a Cell: No Membrane? No Problem! – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.​

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Illustration of the nucleolus, a large membrane-less organelle that forms in the cell nucleus.

The Changing Needs of a Cell: No Membrane? No Problem!

Along with membrane-bound lipid droplets, cells contain many liquid droplets (one type of liquid surrounded by a liquid of different density) with specialized compositions and functions that lack membranes. Because these “membrane-less organelles” aren’t confined, they can come together in response to chemical signals and perform critical functions faster than other organelles can.
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