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Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Figure 1

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Left: The fruit fly provides a unique opportunity to "watch" the effects of disease-associated mutations in the gene that encodes the myosin II motor protein. Schematic of myosin-driven body axis elongation during fruit fly development. Right: These changes in embryo shape require cell movements that are driven by mechanical forces produced by the motor protein myosin II (green). Myosin motor proteins with disease-associated mutations produce slowed cell movements in vivo.

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Karen Kasza/Columbia Engineering & Sara Supriyatno/Sloan Kettering Institute

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