This video illustrates the polymerization of actin, a protein which drives cell movements. Actin acts like the “scaffold” of a cell, so understanding how it forms is important is to basic cellular research and can help answer further questions on how cells form.
2012 Small World In Motion Competition
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Honorable Mention
CAR fish fibroblast transfected with mCherry-Actin and GFP-Vasp
Dr. Maria Nemethova
- Affiliation
- IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology GmbH
Vienna, Austria
- Technique
- Epifluorescence
- Magnifaction
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