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The construction of in vitro assemblies of biological components that exhibit properties of living matter may shed light on the physical aspects of the dynamic reorganization that continuously occurs inside cells. See Letter p.431

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Figure 1: Assembly of microtubule bundles.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 7 November 2012.

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Marchetti, M. Spontaneous flows and self-propelled drops. Nature 491, 340–341 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11750

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