Dividing cells (left) and when rebuilt in vitro (right) (IMAGE)

Center for Genomic Regulation

Dividing cells (left) and when rebuilt in vitro (right)

Caption

Researcher are now able to rebuild the switch that remodel the cytoskeleton. Images of an anaphase cytoskeleton in a dividing cell (left) and when rebuilt in vitro (right). PRC1 (green) crosslinks microtubules and organises compacted microtubule bundles. 

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Jayant Asthana, Wei Ming Lim/ Centre for Genomic Regulation.

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