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How is a micron-scale structure built quickly from nanometer-scale components? Jeff Woodruff describes his ongoing work on centrosome assembly in Tony Hyman's lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.
Jeff and colleagues published their work on this topic in 2015 in the journal Science (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25977552), along with a methods paper in the journal Methods of Cell Biology (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26175448).
Written and narrated by Jeff Woodruff. Edited and produced by Lisa Dennison.
This video first appeared in the "Two Minute Talk" series of Tony Hyman's lab (youtu.be/IBDqJr9vhXU?list=PLzhJMLTEPa4lcFaoGckb2jkHLQXSy3Jsu).
How is a micron-scale structure built quickly from nanometer-scale components? Jeff Woodruff describes his ongoing work on centrosome assembly in Tony Hyman's lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.
Jeff and colleagues published their work on this topic in 2015 in the journal Science (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25977552), along with a methods paper in the journal Methods of Cell Biology (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26175448).
Written and narrated by Jeff Woodruff. Edited and produced by Lisa Dennison.
This video first appeared in the "Two Minute Talk" series of Tony Hyman's lab (youtu.be/IBDqJr9vhXU?list=PLzhJMLTEPa4lcFaoGckb2jkHLQXSy3Jsu).



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