Thirty years of search and capture: The complex simplicity of mitotic spindle assembly.

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Published in J Cell Biol on December 14, 2015

Authors

Rebecca Heald1, Alexey Khodjakov2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 bheald@berkeley.edu alexey.khodjakov@health.ny.gov.
2: Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12201 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 bheald@berkeley.edu alexey.khodjakov@health.ny.gov.

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