Sabine Petry and Akanksha Thawani (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Sabine Petry and Akanksha Thawani

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Graduate student Akanksha Thawani (left) discusses her research with molecular biologist Sabine Petry. Thawani, Petry and their colleagues at Princeton succeeded in reverse-engineering the recipe for building the 'fireworks of life,' the branching microtubules that make up cell walls and the spindles for mitosis and meiosis.

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