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Might makes right: Using force to align the mitotic spindle

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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 7, Pages 736-738

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncb0711-736

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  1. Cancer Research UK [9786] Funding Source: researchfish
  2. Medical Research Council [MC_CF12266] Funding Source: researchfish
  3. Cancer Research UK [9786] Funding Source: Medline

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Both symmetric and asymmetric divisions rely on alignment of the mitotic spindle with cues from the environment. A study now shows that mitotic spindles find their position by reading the map of forces that load-bearing retraction fibres exert on the cell body.

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