Higher MYC Levels Correlate with Increased DNA Damage in Cancer Cells (IMAGE)

Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Higher MYC Levels Correlate with Increased DNA Damage in Cancer Cells

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Immunofluorescence images showing that cells with higher levels of the cancer-promoting MYC protein (red) also tend to exhibit high levels of DNA damage (green), suggesting that too much MYC leads to genomic stress.

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Vincenzo Corbo Lab

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