Put to the Test (IMAGE)
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To confirm that a defect in RAD51 interfered with cells' ability to fix misplaced links between DNA strands, researchers treated patient cells with an agent to cause such links to form. The cells failed to repair them, producing broken chromosomes that fused with one another (red arrows).
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Laboratory of Genome Maintenance at The Rockefeller University/Molecular Cell
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