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Nature 408, 764-766 (14 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35048748
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Swimming against the tide
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Abstract
Toshio Yanagida rejects the conventional biophysical explanation of muscle contraction. No one doubts his technical genius, but could the debate he started ultimately hold back the field? David Cyranoski investigates.
Iconoclast, radical, technical wizard — these are just some of the descriptions that have been applied to Toshio Yanagida, host of last month's Frontiers in Molecular Motors Research symposium in Japan. Yanagida's technological brilliance has been crucial in developing methods to study what drives muscle contraction.
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