Many millions of times per day, football-shaped structures called mitotic spindles form within the body ... the cell can tune the amount of force it needs in order to build a nice balanced spindle ...

Their work focuses on the motor protein, kinesin-5, which helps to organize the spindle's filaments. Many millions of times per day, football-shaped structures called mitotic spindles form within ...

Kinesin-5 proteins and microtubules are important components of the mitotic ... force of the spindle formation. “This work represents an important advance in our efforts to build, from the ...

Many millions of times per day, football-shaped structures called mitotic spindles form ... amount of force it needs in order to build a nice balanced spindle structure," Forth says.

Constructing a body is like building a house -- if you compromise ... online issue of Nature demonstrate that the way the mitotic spindle -- the machinery that separates chromosomes into daughter ...

At least three morphologically distinct sub-populations of microtubules exist within mitotic spindles ... In combination, these findings build a picture of the spindle as a remarkably dynamic ...

My current research includes building coarse-grained models and simulations of ... and modeling the alignment and positioning of microtubule asters (including mitotic spindles in yeast cells) using ...

Constructing a body is like building a house—if you compromise ... online issue of Nature demonstrate that the way the mitotic spindle—the machinery that separates chromosomes into daughter ...

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