Inoue (VIDEO)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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A cilium (red) gets decapitated only after actin 'wires' accumulate at its tip (green flash, 0:50). The video shows three views of the same process. The image on the right is a compilation of the first two.

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Siew Cheng Phua, Johns Hopkins Medicine

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