Specific ion effects occur everywhere. They occur in bulk solutions and at interfaces
(air/water, oil/water, solid/water, macromolecule/water, etc.). They are even found in …

Cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell proliferation, but the precise
pathological mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis often remain to be elucidated. In recent …

The aggregation of proteins is of fundamental relevance in a number of daily phenomena,
as important and diverse as blood coagulation, medical diseases, or cooking an egg in the …

The formation of condensed (compacted) protein phases is associated with a wide range of
human disorders, such as eye cataracts, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sickle cell anaemia …

We have determined the coexistence curves (plots of phase-separation temperature T
versus protein concentration C) for aqueous solutions of purified calf lens proteins. The …

We have investigated the phase diagram of aqueous solutions of the bovine lens protein
gamma II-crystallin. For temperatures T less than Tc= 278.5 K, we find that these solutions …

Biomolecular condensates, formed through phase separation, are upending our
understanding in much of molecular, cell, and developmental biology. There is an urgent …

We have investigated liquid-liquid and solid-liquid phase separation of aqueous solutions of
lysozyme. We have determined experimentally how the phase transition temperatures …

Looking at globular proteins with the eyes of a colloid scientist has a long tradition, in fact a
significant part of the early colloid literature was focused on protein solutions. However, it …

Ions are ubiquitous in nature. They play a key role for many biological processes on the
molecular scale, from molecular interactions, to mechanical properties, to folding, to self …