Sentences with phrase «called liquid droplets»

Even worse, he says, when their surroundings change, stress granules switch from being hydrogels to a different type of structure, called liquid droplets, the same way hair gel might dissolve in water if you heat it up.

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The blowflies are dangling droplets of liquid food that have been stored in a special organ called a crop, Stoffolano says.

Krupenkin's inspiration is a technique called electrowetting, in which a conductive liquid droplet, placed on an electrode, is physically deformed by an applied electric charge.

Fluorescently labeled, positively - charged peptides (red) are attracted to negatively - charged RNAs (invisible in this image) forming droplets that simulate cellular structures called liquid organelles.