Monthly Archives: June 2017

Molecular biology: A liquid reservoir for silent chromatin

By Carsten | Published: June 26, 2017

Tony and our postdoc Adam Klosin have written a Nature “News & Views” about chromatin compaction in liquid droplets based on two articles in the latest issue of Nature (Strom et al & Larson et al). Read the full News & Views piece here. Klosin A, Hyman AA. Molecular biology: A liquid reservoir for silent chromatin. Nature […]

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The Centrosome Is a Selective Condensate that Nucleates Microtubules by Concentrating Tubulin – congratulations to Jeff Woodruff and colleagues on their paper in Cell!

By Carsten | Published: June 6, 2017

Our latest publication is out now in Cell! In this work, led by Jeff Woodruff, we used defined components to reconstitute a minimal centrosome in vitro that can nucleate microtubule asters. Our results suggest that the centrosome acts a selective phase that nucleates microtubules by concentrating microtubule polymerases and soluble tubulin. Read the full paper in Cell, and watch the video abstract […]

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Stem cells: the new “model organism”

By Carsten | Published: June 6, 2017

In a new perspective published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, Tony Hyman and David Drubin “argue that combined advances in genome editing, stem cell production, and organoid derivation from stem cells represent a revolution in cell biology.” These technological advances mean that stem cell studies could now replace molecular and cell biology studies traditionally […]

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Monthly Archives: June 2017

Molecular biology: A liquid reservoir for silent chromatin

The Centrosome Is a Selective Condensate that Nucleates Microtubules by Concentrating Tubulin – congratulations to Jeff Woodruff and colleagues on their paper in Cell!

Stem cells: the new “model organism”

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