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Johns Hopkins Medicine

Stains

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The red dots in these photos indicate cancer cells that are dying. The image on the left shows the amount of cell death in a control-treated tumor and, on the right, in a microRNA-treated tumor. Tumor sections were stained with TUNEL, a marker for cells undergoing programmed cell death.

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