Honorable Mention: CAR Fish Fibroblast
Maria Nemethova, IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Subject: CAR fish fibroblast transfected with mCherry-Actin and GFP-Vasp
Magnification: 100x
Technique: Epifluorescence
This video illustrates the polymerization of actin, a protein which drives cell movements. Actin acts like the “scaffold” of a cell, so understanding how it forms is important is to basic cellular research and can help answer further questions on how cells form.