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Deconstructing myelination: it all comes down to size

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Through a collaborative effort, engineers and neuroscientists have created a method, using electrospun nanofibers as surrogate neuronal axons, to piece together the complexities of myelination.

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Figure 1: Generation of nanofibers as surrogate axons to study myelination by oligodendrocytes.

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Káradóttir, R., Stockley, J. Deconstructing myelination: it all comes down to size. Nat Methods 9, 883–884 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2145

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