Active contraction of microtubule networks.

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Published in Elife on December 23, 2015

Authors

Peter J Foster1, Sebastian Fürthauer2,3, Michael J Shelley2, Daniel J Needleman1,3

Author Affiliations

1: John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States.
2: Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, New York University, New York, United States.
3: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States.

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