Contact: Ana Godinho
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Micrograph of a Cell in Metaphase

Caption: A cell seen through a microscope: the chromosomes (in blue) are attached to the microtubule tracks (in red) in the region of the centromere -- green spots mark the protein CENP-A on the centromere.

Credit: Lars Jansen (IGC)

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