A Life-Line for Broken Chromosomes (VIDEO)

University of California - Santa Cruz

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Videos of dividing cells show both normal cell division, in which duplicated chromosomes (red) segregate neatly into two daughter cells, and complications resulting from a broken chromosome.

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Sullivan Lab, UC Santa Cruz

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