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The Machinery of Cell Crawling

When a cell crawls, part of its fluid cytoplasm briefly turns rigid. This transformation depends on the orderly assembly and disassembly of a protein scaffold

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 271 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “The Machinery of Cell Crawling” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 271 No. 3 (), p. 54
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0994-54