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Caption: The biological motor protein kinesin was discovered at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., through studies of the giant axon of the longfin inshore squid (Doryteuthis pealeii, formerly in Loligo).
Credit: Tom Kleindinst
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