The authors followed individual XMAP215 molecules during microtubule polymerization and measured a mean residence time of almost 4 seconds, during which time the microtubule grew by ∼0.2 μm ...

Their findings, published in Developmental Cell, shed light on how a protein called CDK5RAP2 activates the microtubule ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most common and devastating childhood genetic disorders, affecting ...

and disrupted neuronal polarity can cause disease. For example the mis-localization of the microtubule-associated protein, tau, and of the transmembrane protein beta-amyloid is thought to contribute ...