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Pin-ItThis 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
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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