When cells go bad
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 09:14
in Biology & Nature
When a cell's chromosomes lose their ends, the cell usually kills itself to stem the genetic damage. But University of Utah biologists discovered how those cells can evade suicide and start down the path to cancer.
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