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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Subjet of the Cell Membranes

The subjet of the cell membrane is, its really thin, and it's made of these oily thingsasacids. The cell wall is much more robust, but it's not really compartmentalizing things. It's providing a kind of rigid structure cell membra now - that's later. To make a, to make a abila membrane is turns out to be a bit like makeing oil and water. Is not necessarily any more difficult than that, right? So it will form spontaneously. And the very interesting thing that has added to that is this idea that because these membranes do form spontaneously, if they are right there in this environment where you have these differences between alkali and

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