Sabine Petry and Akanksha Thawani Discuss Microtubule Nucleation with XMAP215 (IMAGE)

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Sabine Petry and Akanksha Thawani Discuss Microtubule Nucleation with XMAP215

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Sabine Petry (left), a professor of molecular biology, worked with Akanksha Thawani (right) and Rachel Kadzik (not pictured) to demonstrate that the XMAP215 protein is key to nucleating microtubules, the skeleton of the cell.

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