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Pulmonary Cell NewsResearchers presented a versatile optogenetic toolbox of artificial multi-headed myosin motors that could move bidirectionally within long cellular extensions and allowed for the selective transport of GFP-tagged cargo with light.
[Nature Cell Biology]
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