AML Defective Blood Cells (image)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Caption

In AML, defective blood cells (stained purple) are present. When the cells have a double mutation of both the IDH2 and SRSF2 genes (bottom right), the number of defective cells rises considerably, indicating a more lethal disease.

Credit

Krainer lab/CSHL, 2019

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