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Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons, and organs, exists inside cells as a liquid-like droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in textbooks over the last half century.
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Soumya Bhattacharyya, Vivek Malhotra, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
What
Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons, and organs, exists inside cells as a liquid-like droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in textbooks over the last half century.
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Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:40:00 GMT · 4h 12m ago
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Barcelona ·
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This finding, published in the Journal of Cell Biology, is the first direct observation of how the most abundant protein in the human body exists naturally inside living cells.
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This discovery challenges a sixty-year puzzle in cell biology about how large collagen molecules are transported out of cells, suggesting new strategies for treating conditions like fibrosis and cancer by targeting collagen secretion.
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2 events in this thread- Currently Reading4h 12m agoCollagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons, and organs, exists inside cells as a liquid-like droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in textbooks over the last half century.
- Health & Science4h 52m agoCollagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in textbooks over the last half-century, according to a new study from the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona.Open article