A Mitotic Spindle in a Dividing Epithelial Cell (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

A Mitotic Spindle in a Dividing Epithelial Cell

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Spindle microtubules are yellow, with actin cytoskeletal filaments blue in this mitotic spindle. There is fresh recognition that cells' ability to build the structures that carry out cell division: dissolving them, re-using and re-building them again millions of times per day, is a very different kind of problem-solving and a new frontier for biology, physics and materials engineering.

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UMass Amherst/Patricia Wadsworth

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