Telomeres (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Telomeres

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This is an image of human telomeres in cells. Each telomere is shown by red dots in resting nuclei of cells (circles) and cells that are dividing (separated linear chromosomes).

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Mary Armanios

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