UPMC Cellular Lamin Animation (VIDEO)

University of Pittsburgh

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Using super-sensitive microscopic imaging, a team of scientists made a fundamental biological discovery that explains the structure of the nuclear envelope and gives tantalizing clues as to how cells squish through narrow openings without springing a leak.

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