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A decade of molecular cell biology: achievements and challenges

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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology celebrated its 10-year anniversary during this past year with a series of specially commissioned articles. To complement this, here we have asked researchers from across the field for their insights into how molecular cell biology research has evolved during this past decade, the key concepts that have emerged and the most promising interfaces that have developed. Their comments highlight the broad impact that particular advances have had, some of the basic understanding that we still require, and the collaborative approaches that will be essential for driving the field forward.

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  1. Asifa Akhtar is at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Stübeweg 51, D-79108 Freiburg, Germany. akhtar@immunbio.mpg.de,

    Asifa Akhtar

  2. Elaine Fuchs is at The Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1230 York Avenue BOX 300, New York, New York 10065, USA. fuchslb@rockefeller.edu,

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  3. Tim Mitchison is at the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood, WA 536, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. timothy_mitchison@hms.harvard.edu,

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  4. Reuben J. Shaw is at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. shaw@salk.edu,

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  5. Daniel St Johnston is at The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, The Henry Wellcome Building of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK. d.stjohnston@gurdon.cam.ac.uk,

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  6. Andreas Strasser is at the Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria 3050, Australia. strasser@wehi.edu.au,

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  7. Susan Taylor is at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chemistry/Biochemistry & Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, Leichtag 415, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093–0654, USA. staylor@ucsd.edu,

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  8. Claire E. Walczak is at Medical Sciences, Indiana University, 915 E. 3rd St., Myers Hall 262, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA. cwalczak@indiana.edu,

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  9. Marino Zerial is at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany. zerial@mpi-cbg.de,

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Akhtar, A., Fuchs, E., Mitchison, T. et al. A decade of molecular cell biology: achievements and challenges. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 12, 669–674 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm3187

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