Correction to: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-024-00699-y, published online 9 January 2024.

In the version of the article initially published, the final three sentences were omitted, as was a related article section, which now includes the reference Park, S. et al. The mammalian midbody and midbody remnant are assembly sites for RNA and localized translation. Dev. Cell 58, 1917–1932 (2023). This has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.