Phase Separation—A Physical Mechanism for Organizing Information and Biochemical Reactions

Advances in molecular biology continue to help us uncover how information written into genes provides a blueprint for the initiation and orchestration of programs and processes that control cell division, cell-type specification, cell migration, cellular differentiation, and cell death. Clearly, molecular elements into which information is written must “talk to one another” and “work with each other” to generate appropriate cellular responses to cues and signals.