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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia

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Healthy cells (left image) display four centrioles, a normal number (in yellow). On the contrary, breast cancer cells (triple negative) have extra centrioles (here 16, right image).

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Gaëlle Marteil, IGC.

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