Scientists watch cell-shape process for first time
Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have observed for the first time a fundamental process of cellular organization in living plant cells: the birth of microtubules by studying recruitment and activity of individual protein complexes that create the cellular protein network known as the microtubule cytoskeleton -- the scaffolding that provides structure and ultimately form and shape to the cell.