Images of human cells with DNA damaged (IMAGE)

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)

Images of human cells with DNA damaged

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Images of human cells with their DNA damaged by a laser beam in the laboratory. In green, the classic H2AX repair protein bound to breaks generated by the laser beam; in red, the new protein discovered in this study (RNF166) bound to the DNA breaks, coinciding with H2AX binding; in blue, cell DNA.

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