Life at the mesoscale: The self-organised cytoplasm and nucleoplasm

BMC Biophysics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Sear, Richard P ^a   Pagonabarraga, Ignacio ^b   Flaus, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cell biology; Chromatin; Cytoplasmic bodies; Cytoskeleton; Mesoscale; Self organisation; Workshop report

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927730998     PISSN: 20461682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13628-015-0018-6     Document Type: Article

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