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Apparently, water can turn solid at room temperature (and above) as well, when seeded by a hydrophilic surface. Some researchers actually believe that all water
by sfjailbird 2y ago
Apparently, water can turn solid at room temperature (and above) as well, when seeded by a hydrophilic surface. Some researchers actually believe that all water in living cells are made up of this kind of 'solid water', and that this is responsible for a lot of cell properties and mechanisms (like cross membrane transport):
https://www.google.com/search?q=gerald+pollack https://www.google.com/search?q=gerald+pollack
- Terr_ 2y agoWhether there's water-weirdness or not, cellular insides are definitely hard for us to intuit. We think of them like tiny fishtanks, but they're actually a fully packed squirming stew where "body temperature" means floating proteins molecules are bouncing around at enormous velocities.
- flobosg 2y agoDavid Goodsell’s Molecular Landscapes (see https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goodsell-gallery/mycoplasma-mycoides https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goodsell-gallery/mycoplasma-... or https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goodsell-gallery/model-of-a-mycoplasma-cell https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goodsell-gallery/model-of-a-...) represent in a nice way the intracellular macromolecular environment.
- interroboink 2y agoPerhaps you've read it already, but this is a nice article on that topic: http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowded-places.html http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowde...