By 
Ethan Perlstein
 | 
TED-Ed Original

Insights into cell membranes via dish detergent

The cell membrane like a good jacket protects the cell from everything outside of it. How is it simultaneously sturdy flexible and capable of allowing the right things to pass through? Ethan Perlstein rediscovers the scientists and their research that have changed the way we study the membrane and the cell as a whole.

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