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Self-healing microtubules

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The walls of microtubules can self-repair bending-induced damage.

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Figure 1: Self-healing in microtubules.

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  1. Bela M. Mulder is at the Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands,

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  2. Marcel E. Janson is in the Department of Systems Biophysics, FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

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Mulder, B., Janson, M. Self-healing microtubules. Nature Mater 14, 1080–1081 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4460

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