The authors apologize to those colleagues whose relevant studies were not cited owing to space limitations.This work was supported in part by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB38040400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31930022,31671380 and 31771476);Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(No.2017SHZDZX01).
Background:Phase transition and phase separation as well as their tipping points are penetrating phenomena in biology and are intrinsic properties of biological systems ranging from basic molecule complexes to cells a...