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Super symmetry in cell division

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Bacterial cells can be sculpted into different shapes using nanofabricated chambers and then used to explore the spatial adaptation of protein oscillations that play an important role in cell division.

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Figure 1: Min proteins oscillate along the symmetry axes of a wide variety of cell shapes.

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  1. Kerwyn Casey Huang is in the Department of Bioengineering, and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA,

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Huang, K. Super symmetry in cell division. Nature Nanotech 10, 655–656 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.148

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