Picture of Fusing Chromosomes (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Picture of Fusing Chromosomes (2 of 3)

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Chromosomes (in blue) are fusing together at their telomere ends (pictured as red and green dots) when DNA repair has gone awry.

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Courtesy of <i>Nature</i> and Mateos-Gomez et al.

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