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Best Kept Behind Bars

Caption: Inside the nucleus, survivin behaves. If it escapes, it can give a cancer cell great longevity. Three proteins conspire to help survivin break out of the nucleus. The darker area around the nucleus, above, is HDAC6, one of the conspirators.

Credit: Evgeny Yakirevich

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