Engineered networks of oriented microtubule filaments for directed cargo transport

Soft Matter

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 349-356

  Doot, Robert K ^a   Hess, Henry ^a,b   Vogel, Viola ^a,c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 33847046436     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b607281j     Document Type: Article

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