# Textbooks Wrong: Cells Don't Move Proteins Randomly

- slug: textbooks-wrong-cells-dont-move-proteins-randomly
- date: 2026-04-02
- category: Biotech & Life Sciences

The finding came from a teaching moment gone sideways: a laser bleaching experiment produced a second dark line nobody expected. Inside that artifact was a new kind of cellular transport, fifty times faster than textbooks described.

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