The drugs bind to rod-like structures inside the cell called microtubules that, like moving train tracks, help chromosomes arrange and split in two during cell division.

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These structures are a cell's power-packs.

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The antibodies were tagged with a fluorescence marker so that the time and place of the structures' emergence in the cell cycle could be noted and imaged.

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"The existence of these structures may be loaded when the cell has a certain genotype or a certain dysfunctional state, " said Prof Shankar Balasubramanian from Cambridge's department of chemistry.

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This is because the ends of chromosomes, structures called telomeres, shorten each time the cell divides.

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Chemo-radiotherapy specifically degrades muscle mass, and depresses the function of mitochondria, the tiny structures that act as the boiler room of the cell, generating energy.

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The current standard method for producing proteins is mammalian cell culture, which does not allow for control of the sugar structures.

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For example, the distance between the centers of two black holes in galaxy clusters distant from each other and the gap between cell walls in a living organism differ on a vast scale, despite their sharing of common structures at the atomic level.

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