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Schematic of the coexisting phases in a lipid-cholesterol bilayer: (a) at low concentrations, cholesterol is uniformly distributed in the bilayer; (b) as the concentration is increased, lipid-cholesterol domains start to form; and (c) above a certain cholesterol concentration, cholesterol-rich domains coexist with the lipid-cholesterol domains.
